billsresponseto magic mirror

Edward Hirsch uses jackson pollocks painting to describe images of a woman he sees and how she somehow takes him back to his childhood. the second page on our paper makes me think the painting may have stirred up some emotion about bad experiences and this painting may have helped him let go of these negative memories because of the way he was "walking through the skin of the mirror" and then he found himself "summoning all the wounded animals inside me, totems of childhood, and letting them go one by one" and then finally at the end he is "somewhere else,transformed, transfigured." So he "walked" through the painting and came out a different person............................/