Daria-Ann, Listen
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I wonder what you are keeping from me by shutting your eyesso often & looking down to your right.If your intent is to master evasion then practice looking up& left so that whoever it is trying to decipheryour eye language might be lulled into believing that you arereminiscing. Or be blank. I’ve caused you discomfortwith my gaze but I’m trying to write the shapeof your eyes, their double crease, their taper thelone capillary that crosses the surface. [End Page 314]
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Maurice Emerson Decaul
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Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa
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Maurice Emerson Decaul, a former Marine, is a poet, essayist, and librettist, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, Sierra Magazine, Barely South Review, Epiphany, and others. His poems have also been translated into French and Arabic. He is a graduate of Columbia University and is currently working towards his MFA at New York University.
