Me?

glasses, freckles

white hair
brown eyes

corners of the mouth turned gently down

then up

a self-conscious smile

an age spot on her right cheek
a beauty mark below her lower lip
puffy quilted cushions of wrinkles above the cheekbones

Caucasian
white

woman

faint frown lines on the bridge of the nose
between uneven eyebrows

light from the window to her right
the left left in slight shadow

the left eye looks smaller, the right eye ?

a right hand removing the glasses

the scar
on her forehead
above her left eye
faded
almost indistinguishable from wrinkles of age

a left hand reaching up
to touch the scar

a fading scar
from stitches put in
before I was in Kindergarten
I remember falling
hitting my head on the sharp corner
of a table next to a couch
in the living room

eyes
patient eyes
patient?
me?

then tears

why tears?

then laugh lines and crows feet revealed by a nervous smile

I check the time
seeking closure ?
11 minutes

me



Mirror, Mirror by Esther Poyer
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Mirror, mirror on the wall... find the nearest mirror. Look. Keep looking for 3 minutes. Write about what you see. EP