The Mask by Anna Cates

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Narrated by Anna Cates

The Mask by Anna Cates
Illustration by Sue Babcock

 

a poet hides behind the mask
its gargoyle image framed in Greco columns
interpreters of fate entrust the task
to poets who hide behind the mask
the truth is all we ever ask
beyond the drama, goblins, and golems
a poet hides behind the mask
its gargoyle image framed in Greco columns

 

BIO: Anna Cates is a graduate of Indiana State University (M.A. English and Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction/English) and National University (M.F.A. Creative Writing). Her first collections of poetry and fiction, The Meaning of Life and The Frog King, were published by Cyberwit Press, and her second poetry collection, The Darkroom, by Prolific Press. She lives in Ohio with her two beautiful kitties and teaches education and English online, including graduate courses in creative writing. 

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