Stone, Paper, and Light

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
What is beauty?
That brush of warmth across the neck
Dispelling cotton and irritant
And releasing
In flowering Mandelbrot
Swathes of woven color
Painting

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27
Love of life and soil
So refined and faultless
As thrones
Cast in the water's abyss
Glittering in sky.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28
But what is it?
It is glorious, yes, dignified
And earthly, but to
Seek some algorithm,
Some discrete path of quantity
In no small part destroys its symphony.

NOTES
Beauty heralds divinity,
And only mankind can listen.

Benjamin Finkel
February 13, 2008