"I see some guys try to transcribe my music on paper, but if you play it like that it will sound corny. That's because they hear notes that I didn't even play. It's there without being there. It's implied. And although people can't really hear it, they feel it. It's an auditory illusion."
- Dizzy Gillespie
How to create an "auditory illusion" in poetry?
Double entendre is one way, but that is more concerned with meaning than music. So how to make one word, or a phrase, sound as if it contains other words. Words that aren't there. The equivalent of bending a note in music, or simultaneously playing different notes. To make words sound that aren't even there.
Here is some elevator music to listen to while you figure it out:
All That Is Normal or Possible
if glassful is
the quantity a glass can hold
then how awful
an awl can be
it baffles the crows caw
indeed, what is
the quantity a crow can hold?
what lawful reasoning
determines the count of caws
their fullness?
the blacker the better the richer the darker
when it comes to a crows caw or coffee
somehow the sunken panels
in a ceiling or soffit
are in fact higher than
the ceiling or soffit itself
sunken, sunglass
sunglassful:
the quantity the glasses hold
of reflection, of light, of eyes
of faces, cheekbones and rooms
of sunflowerful August afternoons
and what then simply of full?
the quantity an of can hold
a quantity that can be held
full of full of full of of
the quantity of music
that can be held