The Weight of Beauty: A Portrait and a Poem, by Aura Hope
The Weight of BeautyThe kind of man who’s done this a thousand times.Who knows beauty by heft, not hueby how it bruises when bundled too tightly,or droops under morning air. Hands that lift before the sun learns its name,palms lined with petals he never picked.He doesn’t need to admire softnessto carry it. No fanfare. No…