"The Memory of Masks" in Polu Texni

Final week of school has meant not sitting down once at the computer until now... Which is why this poem came out on Monday, yet I'm only posting it today.

"The Memory of Masks" is a free verse poem inspired by a scientific article about uncovering new texts that had been repurposed into death masks in Ancient Egypt. Serendipitously, the editor of Polu Texni, Dawn Albright had recently commissioned a mask from the artist Eric Bornstein. So the posts this whole month have been focused on masks, which led her to pull my poem forward from when it had originally been slated to appear to this week instead. I love when there's a convergence of things like that, when various types of art can cross-pollinate or meet in a new place.

So read the poem, and check out all the mask-related posts this month.