- By Ryan Oliveira
To Find Your Face
It's not so much the rejection as how it's uncovered. And how you have to keep going.

To find your face unfound
from a select few chosen to be
incarnations of greats onstage
is one thing.
To find your face
erased from everything you’ve written
as if ink never kissed page, made love,
is another.
To find your face
in plates across perfect tiles, tiptoed
over so as not to disturb the pieces,
is fantasy.
To find your face,
unfurled, flying first into feral canines,
incisive on back molars, neuralgic stabs
is reality.
To find your face
playing Tetris, filling spaces with
falling blocks, common shapes, frustrated,
is failing.
To find your face
baiting the razor, daring the barber
still to bear blood and bone
is beating.
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