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Mask or No Mask, Boston poet Paul Hostovsky captures a simple aesthetic of these divided times.

Face Mask
By Paul Hostovsky       

Have you noticed
how beautiful
everyone looks

when all you can see
are their eyes?
Something about

the imagination,
how it conjures
a perfectly

beautiful face
in the eyes
of the beholder

facing a pandemic
and a polity
with so many unveiled

ugly hatreds.

Paul Hostovsky is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently, Mostly (FutureCycle Press, 2021). His poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter. Website: paulhostovsky.com

 

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