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Article: The Twelve Hats of Napoleon.(poem)
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- Ploughshares
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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In the painting the twelve hats look pretty much alike. Tricorns,
they're called, and when studying them in their invisible grid,
one inevitably thinks of his face.
An allegory about Napoleon: The parts of his face had always
hated each other. Like wild stars in a burning sky, many-a-time
they came dangerously close to colliding.
Nose, mouth, eyes and ears, hair and scalp--they were enemies
to each other, and only I know why.
The mouth made the first move. It picked up and traveled south
into the chin's territory while wind chimes tangled in a breeze.
Staring at the maps of foreign cities, he dreamed of love. Hat
stuffed deep ...
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