Nels Hanson Night Mirror

Night Mirror

Tonight 10,000 pale faces, reflections like dominoes or playing cards, doors each day opening on other doors abandoned in old mirrors in houses, barber shops, stores, bad diners, in car windows, ticket takers’ booths, shiny bumpers’ chrome all watch from the room’s darkened glass the sleeper dreaming now of echelons, wondering if a face amid so many was ever his or if from clearing waters a final likeness rises to the surface to match his face like skin, like the truth.

Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson grew up on a small raisin and tree fruit farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California, earned degrees from U.C. Santa Cruz and the U of Montana, and has worked as a farmer, teacher and contract writer/editor. His many publications of fiction and poetry have received numerous awards and prizes.