Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Soft Glass


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Glen Echo, Maryland. A view of the entrance to the midway, showing people in front of the mirrors
Glen Echo, Maryland. a view of the entrance to the midway, showing people in front of the funhouse mirrors: photo by David Myers, 1939
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



The passage through the looking-glass
leaves us looking back
but if there's a crack in the glass...?
Caught in transit between the two states
death and life, without
any sense of certainty which is on which
side of the glass, so that
to hold a mirror up to life may equally be
to hold a mirror up to death
thought Alice




Washington, D.C. A corner of a bedroom, probably in a rooming house for government clerks, showing reflected in a round mirror above a dresser a woman doing handwork

Washington, D.C.: corner of a bedroom in a rooming house for government clerks, with dresser mirror showing reflection of woman doing handwork: photo by David Myers, 1939 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)