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The fourth sequence in Dante's Heaven is called 'Love is a Babe', a sequence of poems around Beatrice's voice.
Someone kissed me
Someone kissed me.
Is it blood or lipstick
on my cheek?
Was it a thought
brushed past me
or a moth’s wing
but there, those scarlet stains
on my skin, my white dress.
I walk the Lungarno
near the Ponte Sante Trinit.
He’s evaporated
into the crowd
How shall I ever know him again
beyond this touch
and he so pure?
from Dante’s Heaven (Puriri Press, 2006), © Jan Kemp 2006, used by permission of the author.