Eyespots on Moth Wings
Let's workshop this poem about the evolutionary psychology behind our smiling as babies and our powers of facial recognition
Eyespots on Moth Wings
Erectus ancestors who smiled
at faces as infants were more
likely to enjoy protections,
and so now infants smile
at faces and, for extra reasons,
adults—in anxiety too buried
to seem like anxiety—spot
faces even where none exist
(as in clouds and star clusters).
