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| Andy Warhol, The Last Supper (detail), 1986 |
Migrating vultures in flat-black benday
low turning in an Milanese sky,
the faithful and the skeptics
crowding the sidewalks
to stare at a hundred Last Suppers,
pink Jesus doubled in silk,
a reversal of the sacred and the secular
conflated with the presence of God.
Catholicism on the artist's own terms
towered over the empty pews.
Outside, an animal dead in the weeds
writhed with maggots of primary colors,
calling us down to a field of screened ink.
Our lives hang by a thread.
—image from Carnegie Magazine
