What I woke up this morning thinking about was the point Cook and Herzman made about the final section of the Purgatorio, in which the pilgrim Dante finally meets Beatrice, who arrives at the end ...

the human soul’s capacity to care is endless. Beatrice’s love is tough. His sins confessed, they vanish in the air. Love can never be too much or enough. This poem appears in the January 2023 issue.