Haystacks and Faces

HAYSTACKS AND FACES


The real
During the impressionist moment
Was
Thought to depend
Upon atmospheric conditions,
Thus a hay stack
In a twenty-four hour day
Could be many realities.
I suppose this is way the Greeks
In their plays
Used masks
Rather than faces
For the expression of emotions,
For the Greeks,
Except the Sophists,
Were absolutist and logo-centric,
Desiring to believe
In fixity and a self.
When faces express feelings,
Every feeling expressed
Makes someone become someone else,
And thus a sense of self is lost.
The person that one intensely loves vanishes
And is replaced to vanish again and again
According to sociological
Or atmospheric conditions.


Duane Locke

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