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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