Theories of Beauty
1. Hook that pulls us out of time.
2. or a lure to catch us in it
3. Rupture in the boundary
….caused by delight, recognition of what
….we aren’t, then suddenly are?
4. Longing solidified
5. Flaunts some flaw
….—evanescence, radical pink—
….and owns that quality
…so firmly it triumphs
6. Rilke: You, you only, exist.
….We pass away, till at last,
….our passing is so immense
….that you arise: beautiful moment,
….in all your suddenness . . .
7. The moment budded out of us?
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by Mark Doty
from School of the Arts
Harper Collins, 2005