After Paradise

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I have long loved Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz’s “After Paradise,” from his Collected Poems (1931-1987). This particular poem was in his volume, Unattainable Earth. Fifteen years ago or so, what I loved about this poem is how it captured the feeling of being in love and experiencing a place with a beloved. A city. A garden. A particular afternoon when all…