Poems of the Week

Microcosmos

by Julia Griffin

“So happy to see you: our brains respond emotionally to faces we find in inanimate objects,
study reveals”
The Guardian

Three objects in a bounded space
Will call to mind the human face.
No matter what their form or size,
Two shapes can always stand for eyes,
The third supplying mouth or nose.
This pareidolic fancy shows
Our obstinate creative thrust;
Or is it vanity, or just
Plain loneliness that makes us find
Our kin so far beyond our kind?