The Wrathful

The Purgatorio - Canto XVI

Charcoal & Pastel - September, 1995

"No gloom of Hell, nor of a night allowed
no planet under it's impoverished sky,
the deepest dark that may be drawn by cloud;

ever drew such a veil across my face,
nor one whose texture rasped my senses so,
as did the smoke that wrapped us in that place."

translation by J. Ciardi