The desire to be seen is
transforming.
Slide a mirror to me,
under the door,
here in this dark room,
and I will find a way
to flash semaphores.
—
Anna Kander, MSW, earned her social work degree in the Midwest. Her poetry and fiction are slated to appear in Breadcrumbs, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and elsewhere. Find her at annakander.com.
As we recreate ourselves in the eyes of others, as we try to see what they see.
When we look at ourselves we rarely see what others see, but what we see is what we think we have created.