she lives so that she can change her face
so that she can say that no part of you
has ever belonged to her
by the time she dies
*
but she doesn’t know your face
like I do
*
she has the man who fled
for his life
on her face
*
he holds on to her face
*
the features that almost got him killed
*
holds on to it from another country
presumed alive
*
my father’s face lives in a different place
*
her face, foreign matter
escape artist
sends it back to where it never came from
Croque-Melpomene 