Are you man enough to take my pain?
Judas: Mine. In malejail.
I understand the faces of the saints,
the martyred and the lost, in rapture bound
beyond the pale capacity of paints.
I hear the song that they hear. I have found
the underlying structure to that bliss.
You show me with our bodies, blood, and kiss.
April 14, 1999
Yours in the sullen grip of bone-deep pain,
Yours in the breaking beauty of the night,
Yours, whether wrapped in arms or wrapped in chain,
Yours in the ways I cannot yet explain,
But simply understand that they are right,
And rise to taste that breakage yet again.
My beloved, Judas, lives in E Block.
I had him brought to Me.
Chains become him.
Scenes with My Judas:

A Gallery of Sketches by the inmates: