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The Hoofs of Pegasus

Chapter 28: THE JUDAS TREE
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A collection of short lyrical poems that weave mythic and religious imagery with intimate observations of nature and interior feeling. Many pieces draw on classical figures and Renaissance art, while others reflect domestic scenes, sleep, music, and sacrament; recurrent motifs include night and light, birds, water, and ritual. Voice shifts between contemplative reverie and pastoral detail, exploring longing, faith, and creative impulse. The sequence moves through imagistic vignettes—moonlit meadows, bathing maidens, sacramental harvests, and dreams—linking private emotion to larger spiritual and mythical resonances.

THE JUDAS TREE

WINTER to my tree has lent Beauty clean and innocent, Here no purple flowers blow, But crystal blossoms of the snow, Every crooked bough is set With starry petals delicate.
Judas flung the silver down, And hanged himself beyond the town: Spring returns. The traitor blood Quickens in each scarlet bud. Frost and snow remember not— Mercy on Iscariot.