Health
A devil waits with a sword back there to carve
Each of us open afresh each time we've gone
Our circuit round this road, where while we grieve
Our wounds close up before we pass him again—
The Inferno of Dante: Canto XXVIII lines 37-40 translated by Robert Pinsky
BOOKS ON SHELF LIST:
Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking; The Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Lavoisier;
The Inferno of Dante translated by Robert Pinsky;
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard;
The Human Comendy by William Saroyan;
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
