It is effortless to love the beautiful,
\nto choose the beautiful.
\nBut it is not effortless for me.
\nFor what I choose
\nwould be the three legged dog
\nbecause its heart is huge.
\nThe cleft palette
\nbecause of eyes that bewitch me
\nwith their soul.
\nA speckled apple for being held
\nby my beloved.
\nSalt rather than the diamond,
\nfor its taste.
\nA hard scrabble road
\nfor the poet living there.
\nThe plain woman for bearing divinity.
\nA broken bell above a ruined church,
\nfor faith,
\nand everything beautiful that dies,
\nbecause it would not choose,
\nand be unworthy of itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is effortless to love the beautiful, to choose the beautiful. But it is not effortless for me. For what I choose would be the…<\/p>\n