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We are left by and large with randomness, the "pied beauty" that Gerard Manley Hopkins refers to in his poem of that name, which praises "dappledness": "swift, slow; adazzle, dim."
The Marvel of Marfa 2008
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and here is some beautiful cosmos today in the woods, I closed my eyes, and still I could experience that dappledness of sun-then shadow-then sun-then shadow as I walked.
Babydoll asakiyume 2006
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