Beauty

Blood on snow, ease of skill, rural night sky,
shape of a tree, love’s ache, infant’s belly,
hummingbird, sunlit dew, mother’s birth cry,
city from sky at night, audacity,

the moon, intuition’s revelation,
cat in movement, infant’s unblinking gaze,
food when hungry, coral reef, child’s question,
wildflowers, simplicity, a fire’s blaze,

orgasm’s quickening, distant train whistle,
whale cry, honesty, warmth, hunger of youth,
kitten’s frolic, spider’s web, a circle,
unexpected insight, breath, succinct truth,

Japanese garden, Bach, English garden
a really good joke, silence, love’s pardon...