Self-Portraits in a Broken Mirror
When you break the mirror this morning
to celebrate turning 60, your ordinary
face shatters into a hundred cutting shards
like a running commentary on who you were,
who you’ve always been, and who you are
at this moment—just a person standing alone
in a pile of broken faces staring up at you
wondering who it is that you’ll become.
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Kip Knott is a writer, photographer, and part-time art dealer who travels the back roads of the Midwest and Appalachia in search of lost art treasures. His writing has appeared Best Microfiction and The Wigleaf Top 50. His book of stories, Family Haunts, is available from Louisiana Literature Press.