Eyes and Face

Her eyes were striped animals
Bursting from the face that covered
her skull-front neatly. The Mask
was one of many, but the Eyes
remained the Beasts that tentacled forth
to snag eyes and pull them back.
taste the behind of the eyes--
masks get cut, cracked,
pulled in awkward skews.
Strange faces, transmogrified
identity, the other creatures,
and stranger eyes.
Striped animals that catch,
in vast. stain the behind of the eyes-
transmits through golden tips
circuitations of the webs
we're full of webs. every one
one mask disremembered how-
to smile. But another will learn.
sentimentality banes that power.
chant out between. worlds. fire.