ALL THOSE UGLY DETAILS

  Once you get close it gets complicated—

  details that make the whole fuzzy,

  ugliness we swallow so no one else

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  will see. Even you don’t dare look

  too closely. But dare a glimpse

  and spot the inner workings of

  a delicate creature, still blossoming,

  unfurling into a wreath of simple crowns

  like some kind of royalty.