The Thin-Skin Mirror

May 19, 2017

Written by Mike Yost (Photographer/Writer)

Reflecting on the past
All seems reversed
My life an antithesis

Seen as an image from behind
I perceive what the true self sees
Reality distorted and fragmented

But just beneath the thin-skin mirror
This wonder, the authentic awe, remains
Captured with carnivorous curiosity
As the self bleeds beyond the frame

Photograph and Prose copyright Mike Yost 2017

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Before I was walking the streets of Denver with my camera, I sat inside my apartment (and a few bars) drafting a novel in grad school while studying existentialism.

It’s a narrative of a guy falling headfirst into an existential crisis, mostly drinking his way through self-hatred, the need for connection, and the weight of loneliness as the days are stacked on each other in piles like old photographs curling at the edges, soon to fade and slip silently into oblivion.

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