Superstar

Remember that scene in the Arena production, how the lighting
enables everything else, the man’s featureless
silhouette, an abrupt clap, then
his dangling body,

so different
from the version I saw
today, Judas bulky, the chain-link noose
bulky, the man stage left and inches
from our seats.

Either way, more visceral
than seeing Jesus, who’s dead
too, was seeing Judas, a revelation
of who we are.