Imperfect Peaks
El Pico Viejo’s unrhythmic name
Turns raggedy this sonnet’s scansion line.
Don’t use the crater’s damaged ledge to blame
The mountain too much, though. To define
Ideal exquisiteness do not allege
That everything must be perfection. High
Above the ruined mass’s bad-toothed edge
A flawless pyramid attracts the eye
And tempts the heavens to reveal a fact,
A truth about the generous universe:
When scattered imperfections interact,
Results rise finer than a shadowed curse.
..Mount Teide’s shade projects a telling law:
….Perfection finds itself from slanting flaw.