AG2026_1540701a or particularity evidently survives in paradise

(Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1440)

Particularity evidently survives in paradise.

Your own uniform, the modesty of it, still fits.

Your bruises and cuts still glimmer.

The goldapple trees still stand up like the very first numbers you ever learned,

and love’s sentence—I am so glad you’re here—is still what you say.

Detail of Paradise, Jean Gallagher