***
As the wax melts,
the pipes breathe out
Bach’s presence –
sonata number 6:
vivace-lente and allegro.
An orchestra of autumn leaves
is mastered strictly
under one’s fingertips
over an awkward member
of the keyboard family –
a queen of symphony –
a giant heart, an organ
beating at the ‘Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ter-Duinenkerk’,
the church inspired by the ‘cockle’,
a shellfish to which the town
of Koksijde owes its name.
The steel roof, under which the wax melts,
has the shape of two waves
that crash into each other,
observing from the up
fast-slow-alive
Johann Sebastian Bach,
the great Himself
in person.
