Thursday, September 3, 2020

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O stay where you are! Here
in the uncertain hour of a late afternoon
looking outward and looking in
I see this beauty
all I see is beauty.
Something that convinces, asks to be seen,
though it does nothing, just stays where it is,
and merely by existing wins me over.

 

Patrizia Cavalli, My Poems Won’t Change the World