Monday, 26 October 2020

Don’t Look for Beauty




Beauty will not look back at you

from mirrors or photographs

beauty is art and intellect conspiring 

to keep you alive and breathing 

it will pierce when you least expect it

when you’re standing in line at the checkout 

it will run across the road in front of your car

appear as a remembered look from someone 

whose name you never knew

or the raven’s sudden lift off—its wings defining 

ground from sky.


Beauty can be anything and everything

except the intentional harm of another being.

Cruelty for the sake of domination

is mental illness no matter how

it is excused.


See beauty where it is

let it in, for your own sake.


(from Sleep With Me: Lullaby for an Anxious Planet, Ekstasis 2020)


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