[Radio tuning]

This is 104.7,

Stories Through the Static.

I found them in the record.

An October 1915

Lighthouse Service Bulletin.

William B. Thompson

and Charles C. Sapp.

The tower at Sabine Pass

had vibrated hard enough

to put the clockwork
out of order.

Those two men maintained

the light’s characteristic

by hand.

A few lines on a page.

Then I brought them
to our cousin Sun—

notre petit soleil—

our little sun.

She has lived
through hurricanes.

And where I read
the tower’s vibration,

she remembered a sound
you feel

through your body before

it reaches your ears.

I’m Emmie.

Here at 104.7,

we keep the record.

But sometimes,

someone helps us hear it.

Listen to Sun’s account

in Living the Storm.