Here is a fun poem from a couple years back that I published at Inklette. The poem is a light-hearted burlesque on Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Pied Beauty”, a poem I have always loved and admired. I wanted to preserve the fun of Hopkins’ idiosyncratic verse and its delightful language play, and release it from its religious context. I pray the last line makes that transit explicit. Happy New Year to all reading – may you live long and prosper!