Everything But Beauty

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Commentary

I was trying to articulate what drives me to write poetry. Since I have also climbed mountains, I am accustomed to answering for strange obsessions.

Poetry is not my creation of beauty, but my experience of beauty.

The background image is from a 2017 climb of Mount Belford.

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