Carving a Mask Is a Task

Why would one ask, If the carving of a mask Is, indeed, a task When to simply this question ask Is itself a task? Mask carvers in their job bask, Their wine glasses beside a cask, Their African salad in their flask, Their own faces a beatific Mask… Sweet styles of reducing the heat From a long sitting on a seat, A surer method of catching ones breath Man’s enacting of the lion’s stealth.