All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who know how?)
With swift, slow. sweet, sour; dazzle, dim;
He fathers forth whose beauty is beyond change:
Praise him.**
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I’m stippled–
You’re dappled–
Thank god for everyone’s
singular beauty.
*Gerard Manley Hopkin’s Pied Beauty;
**James Reeves’ Selected Poems of G. M. Hopkins.
THIN|SILENCE 