The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

Wallpaper, 2021, archival pigment print from a series:  The Conversation Continues.   

Jo Ann Chaus, American born 1954.  Exhibited at Woodmere, Philadelphia in 2023

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

Morgan in a Moment of Self-Reflection, 2023, archival pigment print. 

Savanah Faith Jackson, American born 2001.  Exhibited at  Woodmere, Philadelphia in 2023

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.