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Saviour's Face: Number 10, Last Look, 1919 by Alexej Jawlensky. © 2018 Long Beach Museum of Art.
79-3.4; Saviour's Face: Number 10, Last Look, 1919 by Alexej Jawlensky. Collection of the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, gift of The Milton Wichner Collection Bequest, 1979. Photograph © 2018 Long Beach Museum of Art.


 

Savior’s Face: Last Look, 1919
        by Karen Holden
 
Sad, but not the final face
Eyes still sharp with life, confused
          though they may be
Mouth purses down on the pain
That famous question turned around
Not why, but how:
                                    forsaken
                                    forsaken
                                    forsaken

 

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