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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

  • 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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