Mark Kirby

Mark Kirby, retired after thirty-five years in cyberspace at the Social Security Administration, writes from his native Baltimore.

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Poem | After Paradise

Reading Dante changes everything: / the vision is the fact / and the vision an eternal spring / an angel-muse makes exact.
By Mark Kirby
January 31, 2020
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