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Poetry · Reflection

JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ MIRRORS

“Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is gazed on as it gazes”

Jorge Luis Borges

22 January 2014

The Little Round Mirror
Edward Steichen – 1901

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