<> Unpublished Poems Greacen Estate 19 Jan Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Greacen019 Manuscript Faces English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacen019 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Greacen019_0.jpg LHL Archive Faces Faces: sun-shielded, indoor faces sprout everywhere, Cinemas, bus queues, lifts in department stores; Faces sprayed with the pallor of the city-bound, Waxen as dolls in tenement attics; Faces on whom the spilled rouge of apples Reminds one of the unending Aprils of childhood, When lilac was as mysterious as perfume of Arabia; 0 the unforgettable fragments of unburied childhood! Faces at windows, dismayed behind lace curtains, Faces of the unadventurous and meek; Faces of the arrogant, walking where angels wince; Faces of country cousins, town truants, anxious aunts: The face of a typist, Helen, in glum suburban beauty, Once seen in a cobwebbed moment, always remebered: Faces of the dead, the mask serene, contorted: The living face of poetry, the all-enduring image. Text