Poems

Jeffrey Burghauser: ‘The Pipe Organ Addresses the Virtuoso’ and ‘Lullaby’

The Pipe Organ Addresses the Virtuoso When you were a girl in Prague Was your family especially political? What did people say about the Jews? Under which abundant pedagogue (Under which entanglement of barren-boughed Consonants & diacritical Squiggles) did you study? And of whose Commendations do you feel most proud? Facing down my sounded notes, the cog- Nátory of taps & clicks, the creaks & clitical Calls of fulcra, keys & oaken screws Skitter in autistic dialogue. Touch’s realness can’t be disavowed. You’re applying with the critical, Civilized precision of taboos Heft as of a springtime-dampened shroud. When your heart…

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