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When I point
out to you that

the flat face of the lake’s water in
stillness is made suddenly
more striking for how a wind

just now, coming, spoils it,
I have in mind
only how even a least

disturbance, strangely
heightening a thing’s
beauty, can at last

define it.

"
Carl Phillips, from “Words of Love” (with thanks to lifeframebyframe)
15th January 2012
Tags: poetry, lit, Carl Phillips, Words of Love, thoughts that breathe,

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