You.

Unknown, Carl Robert Firchau, 1st Upper Silesian Field Artillery Regiment "von Clausewitz" No. 21, 1907

Firchau, Self-Portrait, 1971

Firchau, Self-Portraits, 2008

PRINTS

Seeing photos

of ancestors

a century past

is like looking

at your own

fingerprints—

circles 

and lines

you can't 

recognize

until someone else

with a stranger's eye

looks close and says

that's you.

Joseph Bruchac