This poem is taken from PN Review 149, Volume 29 Number 3, January - February 2003.
On Listening to Glenn Gould play Bach's Goldberg Variationsfor my father
1
Here it comes
on its black sail
and surely nothing will be the same.
Out of the silence
in from the horizon
and nothing will be the same.
2
What can it be?
The dance of the viruses of course
under the theatre's glass.
Here's a waltz, a roundel, as they reproduce.
Meanwhile, up in the paradiso
the scientists have started their applause.
3
Listen to the notes
listen to the notes
as perfect as the pomegranates
and the plumage of the bee-eater
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