Kathryn Kimball - 432Hz

With Zen-like precision and sparseness, poet Kathryn Kimball leads us down currents of time, connection, and calmness with her poem “432Hz”. “My piano tuner recently mentioned to me that some musicians tune their instruments to a frequency of 432Hz while the standard tuning is 440Hz,” Kathryn told The Dewdrop. “I was intrigued enough to look into the topic and discovered claims that music played on instruments tuned to 432 wave-cycles per second calmed the heart and mind, leading the listener into a deeper resonance with nature’s own vibrations.” In explaining the writing of her poem, Kathryn continued, “Since my meditation for many years has been centered on Nadam‘s vibration of silence, a frequency infusing all gross and subtle fields of matter, I wrote these lines to express the singing inhering in all things.”

432Hz

everything is vibration
every thing
sings
wind sings
fire sings
rocks sing
hard unmoving
rocks
singing
for millions of years
in waves
like water

Kathryn Kimball

Kathryn Kimball grew up in Alabama, has a Ph.D. in English Literature and has taught writing and nineteenth-century literature. Her publications include a 2021 chapbook, a book of poetry accepted for publication in 2025, and inclusion in several journals. She is a yoga practitioner and lives in New York City.