Elegy

In memory D.K., Scrovegni Chapel, Padua “Even Duccio can’t match Giotto’s stage management of great tragedy”: Transgendered Professor Y. in leather miniskirt paces before the screen, wood pointer scraping saint faces, slapping hunched women of the Lamentation. Blue-gold tumult of the chapel walls. After-lunch lecture hall heat. You’re in that class with me. We go on from there—not long. You do The Waste Land in different voices—Come in under the shadow of this red rock