Kevin Densley: ‘In the Manner of C.P.E. Bach’ and ‘Kitchen’
In the Manner of C.P.E. Bach
Not
in the style of
Johann Sebastian,
nor Johann Christian, “the London Bach”,
and definitely not the way
that the restless and dissatisfied
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach might have played it,
no—
play it for me
in the manner of
“the Hamburg Bach”,
Carl Philipp Emmanuel.
Kevin Densley
Kitchen
Cod is battered.
Lamb hammered.
Vegetables knifed
into pieces.
Chickens skewered.
Carcasses stripped.
Crustaceans boiled,
dismembered.
Garlic crushed.
Strawberries pulped.
Even the concrete floor
is distressed.
Kevin Densley
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