The "cameo" is a syllabic form comprising seven lines of specified lengths. Here are two contributions to a Medusa's Kitchen challenge.
1.
That face;
it looked just like her.
Couldn’t be—she lives in Boston,
doesn’t she?
Or did she wander from a dream
to be glimpsed and then
walk on?
2.
Hitchcock
put himself in all
his films. Michelangelo drew
his own face
groaning at the final judgment.
We write ourselves in every
poem.
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