My Fair Ladies

[Jerome Park]

David Morris  wrote:
> Tho your prose intro baffled me a bit, the poem left me in awe.

The poem, a Christian prayer, a Jesuit's poem, is a fine example of
the Christian view of God's / The Creation's /  Nature's power to
produce wonders, monsters, prodigies, not slaves, not mechanical
force, but miraculous ones that are gifts, of Grace, God's power to
keep our sense of wonder alive, forever and ever. Rather than
replicate, or mass manufacture, or produce by mechanical means, God,
even when she produces twins, never produces anything that is like
anything else. All are new. No two flowers are identical, notr two
faces, nor grains of sand. God does this to keep perpetually alive,
immortal, our sense of wonder and to amuse herself. We can only praise
Her, or Him...Hymn. So female monsters, if they be of Nature and not
of Man, are delightful, they are the carnival, the parade, the song,
that provokes nor evokes horror nor terror.
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