as the light shines in...

surrounded by misery

...thankful for your love

***

I took this photo in the chapel of the New Mexico State Prison.. site of a horrible riot in 1980.

It was 2008; obviously years and years after the tragedy... and yet, the violence

hung in the air like smoke in an old speakeasy.

As I wandered about.. I came to the chapel... empty...

save for some pigeon wings that someone had leaned up against the stained glass windows.

.such poetry.

(I've found an old disc of photos that I took on a photo shoot

to the penitentiary .. so I've been editing a couple of them these past few days.)