ALL THOSE UGLY DETAILS

Once you get close it gets complicated—

details that make the whole fuzzy,

ugliness we swallow so no one else

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will see. Even you don’t dare look

too closely. But dare a glimpse

and spot the inner workings of

a delicate creature, still blossoming,

unfurling into a wreath of simple crowns

like some kind of royalty.