Quandary and Sang Froid
Would you prefer to have your face or name
Remembered? Hair might peek out from your brim
(Cloth, felt, or fur). These strands might be your claim
To be recalled. When you are on the rim
Of death, will you want others to recall
Your eye and lip, or something famous that
You did or were? Do you want something small
Or big to be your fame … the silk top hat
You wore with such aplomb with morning suit
The day you saw the man you love married,
Or some accomplishment of high repute,
Or curls left behind as he carried
Across the threshold all your daydreams crushed,
Your curls left in beauty’s silence hushed?