This poem was inspired by the first lines of Dante’s Comedia written in the midst of the despair of exile from his beloved Florence. It reflects the difficult act we all experience, of trying to make home in the world again when everything has been taken away; the necessity of stepping bravely again, into what looks now like a dark w…
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