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The scan-verified title page presents Cracking Of The Mirror as poems by Jack J. Smith, with an inductory poem and drawing by Will Thomas.

The page formally frames the collection as a collaboration between text and image. The misspelled or idiosyncratic INDUCTORY wording gives the title page a handmade, small-press character even before the poems begin.

The title page positions the mirror-cracking as a collaborative act — Smith's poems alongside Will Thomas's introductory poem and drawing, suggesting that the rupture of self-reflection the title promises is witnessed and confirmed by another artist's hand.