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The Judas Tree single work   poetry   "When the messenger"
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 The Judas Tree
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Notes

  • Dedication: for Alan, Julie, Susan and Paul
  • Epigraph: Sir, say no more. Within me 't is as if The green and climbing eyesight of a cat Crawled near my mind's poor birds. Trumbull Stickney
  • Epigraph: A terrible frenzy seized me ... That was why I fed a cat with the food that was offered to the Divine Mother. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
  • Author's note: See Matthew 27, 3-8; & Dante, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto XXXIV, 61-63. The 'heresy' regarding Judas as the true incarnation is borrowed as idea from a ficcione by Jorge Lyus Borges, entitled Three Versions of Judas

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