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:
The Inferno of Dante translated by Robert Pinsky; The Story of My Life by Helen Keller; Get a Grip: A Take-Charge Approach to Living with Arthritis by Amye Leong and Joe Layden; Out of Joint: A Private & Public Story of Arthritis by Mary Felstiner; Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking