Ten Degrees
How beautiful the sun as it skims across the air in the hush of ten degrees, disc of palest yellow hope along a sky
of circumstance; how beautifully we watch it fall, the random tern, forgotten mole, the infant tree inside rough winter bark.
How beautiful this frost, female fingers tracing down the glass, how beautiful this world too cold to criticize itself;
how beautiful Earth's creatures are, happy and forever safe from the only perfect tragedy, which is of course to never have been born.
Tom Chandler
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