Liberal Art’s Carol Dine Writes about a Painting by Samuel Bak

“New Moon For An Old Landscape”

On its side, the cup

expands to cradle the cosmos.

From every direction, God roars;

lightning cracks the cloud-skin.

Then, in the silence, a shattering

of blue mountains, roofs of the ghetto houses.

From the violet sky,

a fragment of new moon

comes down to fit itself

where the cup is broken.