Showing posts with label Angela Hewitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angela Hewitt. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Bach raving mad in the morning

This morning's earworm was a fleeting passage from JS Bach, hard to identify and impossible to eradicate. Lovely and tangled at the same time. Here's a sample of a Bach piece by the incomparable Angela Hewitt as an example, a metaphor for a confused mind in an up mood. The earworms win today. Today's poem reminded me of the time that I spent in Leipzig, City of Heroes, birthplace of Bach and with other charms ...

She has no English
I have no German. We
smile and speak knitting
In the best woolshop in the world.