Reflection Queries

by Jen Schneider

 
Q1. What describes a world where no personal mirrors are permitted, yet one is constantly being watched?
 
Q2. Define watch.
 
Q3. Define mirror.
 
Q4. How are mirrors and watches similar? Different?
 
Q5. Which of the following describe a mirror’s purpose?
 
Control
Restraint
Acknowledgement
Recognition
Other
 
Q6. Which word does not belong?
 
Mirror
Reflection
Image
Surveillance
 
Q7. What word would you add to this collection? Why?
 
Control
Watch
Track
Age
 
Q8. Define age.
 
Q9. Does the aging process impact identity if one can no longer see their image?
 
Q10. Is dust on mirrors dangerous? Why?
 
Q11. If I hold my hand to a mirror and do not recognize, what/who has changed? 
 
The mirror
My hand
Myself
None of the above
All of the above


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"Reflection Queries" was first published in The Closed Eye https://theclosedeyeopen.com/.

Jen Schneider is an educator, attorney, and writer. She lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Philadelphia. Recent work appears in The Popular Culture Studies Journal, Toho Journal, The New Verse News, Zingara Poetry Review, Streetlight Magazine, Chaleur Magazine, LSE Review of Books, and other literary and scholarly journals.