“Bach’s Ghost”
by Richard LeDue
I like
to believe
this
is more of a conversation
than
just me listening to a dead
composer,
and I
wonder
if that
is the truest
immortality:
being
able to haunt a person
born
long after you died
with
something that had nothing
to do
with them
by playing
sound against
silence.
Such
spirituality makes me think
how this
poem feels
like
a phantasm hoping to howl
against
all the nights
I’ll
never see,
but afraid
of becoming a whisper
that
drowns tragically,
beneath
the noise
too often
thought to be a
necessity.
Richard
LeDue (he/him) lives
in Norway House, Manitoba, Canada. He has been published both online and
in print and is the author of numerous books of poetry. His latest full length
book, Another Another, was released from Alien Buddha Press in May
2025.
