jerry hughes - Holocaust A D

The convulsed night
held forth a star;
Immeasurably the star
expands, explodes,
and from the abyss
spears a porcine squeal;

'Father, have mercy.
Understand.
Kiss me.
Oh, father, forgive me
as well as man.'

The hapless puppet Judas
hangs from a branch like a
cast-aside doll.

As a murdered tree
is resurrected briefly
into a living ornament of wood.

jerry hughes

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