Complaints about face-veils have subsided. The city is in face-veils, the men also. Eye contact is fleeting. Friendliness is modulated by voice through face-veils: the well-tempered clavicle, tremulous trachea, the over-joyous hello. The new enemy is the [nostril]. Shops are hotbeds of nostrils. Public parks are on the nose, but more often off. Never were noses so beak-like, nostrils so evident. They are in-your-face. This morning, nostrils were up to 55% hi-visibility. It’s a shock. Have they been tested with pokers? Let’s hope so. They flare, they wrinkle, they refuse to cover up. Take a deep breath. Cross the street.
[nostril] Melbourne iPhone photograph 2 of 10: Heidelberg looking east towards the Dandenongs, 1st of July 2021, 5:10 pm.
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