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Dappled Things

Thank you day for dappled things—

For ambrosia beetles streaking skylines inside a maple

For pansies speckled as a painter’s sleeve

For russet-crusted sidewalks of lichen, airy springs

of fiery-structured fringe For pink corpuscles

making midges soon to burst out the undersides of leaves

Thank you for all that’s still somehow

counter, original, spare, and strange

For the brightening swell of a honeybee’s sting

For the alien markings on my girlfriend’s cheek and how

they form a perfect triangle