Facial Blindness ~for Chuck Close Pencil lines square off A face doomed by a certain blindness Where no paint stroke equals hair and no mouth is yours You—are sienna scumbles vermillion daubs Only a stab at pupils and pores yesterday’s Fu Manchu Perhaps no pigment clinches facial recognition May I present to you lozenges green and umbra Oil mingled in soft dirt not exactly Resemblance more a work-around For prosopagnosia* awareness without emotion The rind-and-peel after-taste of pungent cerulean A wink of capricious colour Shaped like a simile Sidling up to a mirror Susan Cowger *prosopagnosia: the inability to recognize faces of other people or one’s own features in a mirror Susan Cowger’s chapbook, Scarab Hiding, was released December 2006. Her work most recently appeared in Windhover, Adanna, Perspectives, CRUX, and McGuffin. Susan is founder and past editor of Rock & Sling: A Journal of Witness.
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