Taking off the Mask
Contraction & Expansion in Poetry
In the last few weeks, as the azaleas have bloomed, so too have my young students’ faces. Until mid-February, for the last year and a half, I have seen only the upper faces of my high schoolers where I tutor. For the first six months of our Covid year 20-21, they also sat behind a plexiglass shield wearing their masks, looking a fraction less miserable …
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