
Dante for Today
Poetry Off the Shelf
The Beginning of Purgatorio Canto One
Dante exits hell, turns through middle earth somehow, and then enters purgatorio. The fluid blue of the eastern sapphire pooling in the cloudless mid sky clear down to the first curved horizon line was an even more delightful sight. Having left behind the sad, making, dead air that had so messed with my chest and eyes,. the gorgeous planet that says yes to love was turning the east into a total glitter fest, veiling the fish that formed her enterage. Here's where the kiss of life restores the reign of poetry. O true blue muses, i'm yours!
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