undersong

The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.

A couple of anthems ring hollow in their insistent 1990s Broadway way, but America’s undersong stirringly comes through.

The undersong here is underplumage: those jewel-like greens and purples and reds you can spot beneath the oil-slick surface of certain black-feathered birds.

Undersong, un′dėr-song, n. the burden or chorus of a song: an underlying meaning.

And our flight is a choral chant of flame, That ceaseless fares to the outer void, With the undersong of the peopled spheres, The voices of comet and asteroid, And the wail of the spheres destroyed.