A $30 coffee table book
of scavenged photographs from the Łódź ghetto.
Black. White. Open-mouthed corpses. Sunken eyes.
A well-dressed member of the Judenrat.
Undated. Name and fate unknown. A morgue.
A birch tree. Crematoria. A grave.
A foreword and an introduction. Index.
Table of contents. Footnotes. Endnotes. Spine.
Ribs. Hair. Grey matter. Viscera. False teeth.
Wheel ruts. A birch tree. Wintertime. A face.
A heap of dirt dug out by hand. Two hands.
A birch tree. Black and white. A face. A face.