Bach might have met his alter
ego Handel revisiting Halle
in the area of both their births but never
did however Telemann notwithstanding
worldly wizard of Italian opera
divested forever of deformed castrati
vocalic cavorting beloved of the moneyed
replaced not as penance by Lenten choruses
cantor of Leipzig engendering clans
of composing offspring and sacred cantatas
purifiying passion in the fire of the fugue
lauding Luther to the glory of God
parallel paths of stage and pew
knotting never short of infinity
finally caught in the amber of culture
binding baroque to the weft of the west.
