At the Children’s Violin Concert
–Susan Cataldo
From drenched: Selected Poems of Susan Cataldo
Firmly
bowed
strands of horse hair
tightened
or
gathered up by
a small
hand to play
a piece by
J.S. Bach
who drank 36 cups of coffee every day.
I like him because he was
inspired by his belief in God
& he played the organ in a church
in Leipzig & he walked on
cobblestone streets to his home
every evening where he fathered
many children & wrote music
for his wife to clean house by.
He worked hard all his life
& when he died, he left us
all the little notes he made
for himself while he was alone.
