Fjords Reviews

They shriek with ugliness—

Dirty rolling asphalt parking lots,
weeds growing tall along the road,
the man pulling a metal cart heaped with trash bags,
shod with flattened sandals in the freezing cold;

—Even the adage about beauty and its beholder
frays from its overuse—
            Is splendor overlaid on everything
            by the generous, the open-hearted?

I’d like to see the hoary frost on the holly bush
outside my son’s window,
to crouch by the rails and feel the train
thunder by like God—

to inhale Absolute Beauty sharp and strong like the wind
that bends the trees in a storm.

—Forgive me, for I have missed it—
            Forgive my incurious eye,
the scratched and cloudy glass of my heart,
            for it needs breaking—

*title excerpted from Julia Cameron’s book The Right to Write

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