"E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle."*
-Dante
I dreamed I saw the libraries of Heaven
and many books were there
that never saw the light of day on
earth-
and there were no sentinels at the door:
and in the air, something like flowers
and when you turned the page,
fresh meadows, endless hues-
and in a corner resplendent with light
and no newspapers-
you were reading by heart
and could not die-
mary angela douglas 13 may 2005
copyright 2006
*"and we walked out once more beneath the stars."
from Dante's Inferno, Canto 34 (when the poets emerge from hell)
