Poem Category: In the Mirror

Bedroom mirror
night cream jars
bright in autumn sun.

Home alone
mirrors in the mirrors mirror
his mother’s shattered mirror.

Window mirror
on the spring roses
their pregnant buds.

Laurel in the mirror
the many combs through
her rain soaked hair.

After his wake
father’s face
in my shaving mirror.

In the mirror
the self-drawing slips
from Laurel’s hand.

In the mirror
the orange tree swinging
its solitary fruit.

Sundial garden
a cricket chirp short
of twilight.

Lake picnic
no one seeing
the canoe drift away.

No sun today …
yet in the mirror
the thaw drips, drips,