FOR THE SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
(Dayton, Ohio)


There was an obvious shame for him,
and a palpable wish-in-the-air, that he
was more-a-boy, but they gave out a
veritable jewel box of sixteen crayolas
and wheat colored paper every Friday.
All he could draw and color then was
the Crucified King and His court of
abused children, Tarcisius, Agnes,
Pancratius, Philomena ... the Churc
Triumphant. Right along with the lost
gay child, they seemed to know
something of being no one here below,
and having nowhere to go but up. They
taught him a secret of the Kingdom, to
see His blood everywhere, and the fine
art of enduring the desert solitude of the
outcast. This ex-communication slowly,
slowly, slowly became an oasis where
he could find again the Church above,
where he would never be perverted,
judged, or molested, and this has been
the actual means of his survival, and I
thank them.

WILLIAM HART
McNICHOLS iconographer,
poet and author
Albuquerque, New Mexico

October 1993





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