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February 2, 2021

February 2, 2021 Tara Claeys

Based on “Face Poem,” by Doreanne Laux

Your face

Your mismatched Picasso face, one eye bigger than the other face

Your slanted, uphill teeth face, too bright, too white on top, glowing smile face

Your freckled, sprinkled face with the constellation nose that shines like a light bulb

Your steel wool nose hair, cavernous nostrils that take after your grandmother

Your not sexy, increasingly wrinkled, shriveled-mouth face, like an apricot, sweet but grooved with dryness and age

Your tear-stained, mud slide face where traces show but are covered up with caked-on “I am strong”

Your blue-eyed face, your source of pride and self-confidence face, like a child whose mother praised them for doing something good

Or the puppy dog eyed face when you say, “Good Dog.”

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