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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

VI. Accomplished Facts

9. His Own Face Hidden

HOKUSAI’S portrait of himself

Tells what his hat was like

And his arms and legs. The only faces

Are a river and a mountain

And two laughing farmers.

The smile of Hokusai

is under his hat.