Cosmic Edges

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can't talk about paradise

can't talk about paradise

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Emmalea Russo
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Heaven’s strangely heady.

Paradiso, Gustave Doré.

Paradiso begins. A proem: Dante looks back at his journey.

“I was in the heaven which receives more of His light. He who comes down from there can neither know nor tell what he has seen…”

Dante gets pulled out of his body in ecstasy (to be or stand outside of oneself).

Poetry can do a lot, can make and break …

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