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David J. Rothman

Poetry

Winter 1991

How to Eat

By David J. Rothman

                       for L. Y. My mother’s mother’s father made a table. To build the top he shaped irregular woodInto inlaid geometry. Each square’s cornersCenter the sides of the next largest square, […]