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For Bach and Buxtehude, Dancing at Heaven's Organ

A poem.
By Bradley R. Strahan
Illustration by Dante Terzigni
June 2020
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(“Oh I’ll leap up. Who pulls me down?”—
“Doctor Faustus,” by Christopher Marlowe)

Now can I join this dance?
See, I am thinner than vacuum.
I can kneel toward the sun
at the very angle of prayer
and feel the counterpoint
pulse through my veins.

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Illustration by Dante Terzigni