Three Faces

With a solicitude whose grace became apparent

by their evident belief that in a glance

I would be able to advance

a brief but sensitive appraisal of the fine array

of nuanced features they had brought me to display,

three faces just arose to offer their vicissitudes today.

They couldn’t stay: there were too many other eyes

to heed, to feed – to gauge, assuage – the rage

of some of whose intemperate uncertainties

they might be able to allay.

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