Poem Category: In the Mirror

Her bedroom mirror
every doll out of their box
being chastised.

Mantelpiece
how his youth fits
father’s photos.

Lake mirror
slowly decomposing
autumn leaves.

Garden path
ants black with acid
up the school boy’s stick.

In the mirror
after the long drive home
tucking the toddlers in.

In the mirror
licking at her sleep
the Labrador’s tongue.

In the mirror
the silence of snow
on our neighbour’s car.

Cold bedroom
in the mirror
old Labrador in our doona.

In the mirror
I feel the weight
of the grandchild’s smile.

Cafe’ mirror
the blonde sipping quietly
under her red sun hat.