{"id":3637,"date":"2021-06-30T17:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2021-09-30T18:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:34:39","slug":"on-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/30\/on-aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"On Aesthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ON AESTHETICS<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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By Kayla Beth Moore<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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after Kenneth Koch<\/em><\/p>

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Aesthetics of Being a Truth Universally Acknowledged<\/strong><\/p>

Be poorer than you deserve<\/p>

and have a more charming sister.<\/p>

\u00a0<\/p>

Aesthetics of Dido, Turning from Aeneas in the Underworld<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0 Anger is the ash<\/p>

that fell in flakes<\/p>

around your extinguished pyre.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Forgiveness,<\/p>

the unspoken promise<\/p>

between pistil and stamen<\/p>

in the myrtle grove.<\/p>

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Aesthetics of the Bouquets in the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum<\/strong><\/p>

Be Pee Gee hydrangeas webbed with curly willow branches and tiger lilies.<\/p>

Be designed by a third-generation Dutch florist.<\/p>

Be endowed.<\/p>

Be new every week.<\/p>

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Aesthetics of Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/strong><\/p>

Call love<\/p>

\u201cImagination\u201d<\/p>

and make it mandatory.<\/p>

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Aesthetics of Surviving on a Desert Island<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0<\/strong>Search for driftwood.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Remember old songs.<\/p>

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Aesthetics of Porch Ants<\/strong><\/p>

Keep quiet in the roots<\/p>

of the potted jade plant.<\/p>

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\u00a0<\/strong>Aesthetics of Being the Only Woman at The Conference Table<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0<\/strong>Wear a crisp white collar.<\/p>

Have the nicest pen.<\/p>

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Aesthetics of Flannery O\u2019Connor<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0<\/strong>Include a grandmother,<\/p>

a pet, and a pistol.<\/p>

Name someone after a virtue.<\/p>

Tuck the analogia entis <\/em><\/p>

in between the killer<\/p>

and the killed.<\/p>

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Aesthetics of Leaving Home<\/strong><\/p>

Tell your mother you\u2019ll be back<\/p>

and try to remember you said so.<\/p>

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Aesthetics of Pennies<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0<\/strong>Late capitalism\u2019s<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 breadcrumbs.<\/p>

No longer copper.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Still jangle.<\/p>

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Aesthetics of Edwin Austin Abbey\u2019s \u201cRichard, Duke of Gloucester and Lady Anne\u201d (1896)<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0<\/strong>She gives the red crowd<\/p>

nothing but the slightest flush<\/p>

of her high-boned cheek.<\/p>

That her eyes were basilisks.<\/em><\/p>

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Aesthetics of In Medias Res<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0<\/strong>Start running<\/p>

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Kayla Beth Moore<\/strong> is a writer from Tellico Plains, Tennessee. She holds an MAR in Religion and Literature from Yale Divinity School and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Florida. She was the founding curator of the Library at Grace Farms and lives in Atlanta, GA.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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