7.01 / January 2012

Blackbox

Blackbox lies at the bottom of the ocean where the fish are blind and the waters dark and muddy and where lie scattered the bones of ships and sailors of the seas and of the skies. Once, after a sudden event in another world, many things descended here. The sky ship was already broken. Somberly, the sailors sank into the sand, feet first. Blackbox trapped their voices. Eons passed. Now Blackbox lies among the ships and the sailors and the fish who can never see them and the voices have long since trickled out through an opening carved by time and mingled with the mud and the bones here at the bottom of the ocean.


Mika Seifert, born 1982 in Germany, began playing the violin at the age of five. He studied at the Juilliard School, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. As a soloist, Mika has performed at the Cologne Philharmonic, the Essen Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the Festival Pablo Casals, among other venues. He has work forth coming in The Antioch Review and Palo Alto Review.
7.01 / January 2012

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