Fang Mask, by Janice Ericson

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Fang Mask

Elongated
wooden face
whitened
with kaolin.

Features
tinted brown
topknot, too. 
No words

from lips
no blinks
in the gaze
from my wall.

Yet evil spirits
flee thieves kneel.
Handsome art or
talismanic charm?

I pat
his narrow nose
each evening
not knowing
what he knows. 

​Janice Ericson

Janice Ericson is a poet living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with her wife of 27 years.  She has been a member of a poetry workshop for almost ten years led by Tom Daley in Boston.  She has not submitted many poems for publication but hopes to change that now that she is retired and can devote more time to writing poems and finding homes for them.