Table of Contents
I History
History 3
The Elevator 5
The Fifties 7
"Spooky Action at a Distance" 9
Mowing the Grass 11
Empty Park Gray 13
The Lunch Boxes 15
Doves 16
Climate Change, California 2017 17
Bris, &
i (the wide-eyed children gobbling Pirate's Booty &) 19
ii (Regard now) 20
Even in Leviticus 21
Processional 23
Es Ist Vollbracht 24
Icon 26
Yahrzeit Candle 28
Shiva 30
Religion 32
To a Rash Hashanah Challah 33
II Pompei And After
Pompeii, Banquet Scene 37
Leonardo da Vinci's Ultima Cena 38
Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights 39
Sodoma's Monks at Table with St. Benedict (Monte Oliveto Maggiore) 40
Cranach's Adam and Eve 41
Carracci's Bean Eater 43
Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus 45
In Hogarth's An Election Entertainment 47
Goya's Saturn Devouring One of His Children 49
Manet, he Déjeuner sur l'herhe 51
Van Gogh's Potato Eaters 52
Gauguin, The Meal (The Bananas) 54
Jacob Lawrence's They Were Very Poor 56
Hopper's Nighthawks 58
Grandma Moses's Thanksgiving Scene 59
Thiebaud's Girl with Ice Cream Cone 60
Leonora Carrington's Friday 62
In Faith Ringgold's Dinner Quilt 64
III Alphabet Soup
Alphabet Soup 69
Geometry Salad 71
Who Now 72
The Fava Bean Eaters 74
An Argument from Design 75
Numerology
0 (Big & white & rowdy) 76
1 (Infinite in) 77
2 (The peculiarity of coupledom) 78
3 (Oddity) 79
4 (Quartet of intelligence) 80
5 (Merge the odd) 81
6 (The triangles plunge into each other) 82
7 (After six intervals of I am, I will, I) 83
"The Little Sandwiches Would Never Be Eaten Now" 84
Bypass 85
Abandonment 86
Mortola 34 88
The Night Cook 89
IV Judgment Day
Judgment Day 93
YouTube 95
Weeping on the Day of Atonement 96
Yahrzeit Ghazal 98
Congratulations 99
Ash 101
Dirge for Ruth 102
Elegy for Chana 103
Ghost 104
i (Hot night. A silence so intense) 104
ii (Cubist abstraction of self from self-) 105
iii (Spirit guest! Geist gast! Is it a gift to meet) 106
iv (Children curl on grownup laps, asking) 107
v (What do the little ones know of ghosts, in their flimsy) 108
vi (The dying friend just gave up dying, she limped) 109
vii (Summer solstice, when the light outweighs the dark-) 110
Winter Empty-House Haiku 111
The Half-Dead Live Oak 113
Sick at Heart 114
Ceanothus 116
Pacemaker Sonnet 117
Doorway 118
Rhododendrons 120
On the Porch 121
This Wheelchair 123
Acknowledgments 125
Notes 127
