Poem Category: In the Mirror

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,

In the mirror
a sprinkle of strangers
around Father’s wake.

Pond mirror
a frog with the measure
of an incoming fly.

Singing rock star …
her too as she mimes
into the mirror.

In the mirror
the light globe leaving
its heat outside.

Pink bedroom
her thirteenth birthday
begins in the mirror.

In the mirror
the tot counting stars
with her baby lisp.

Sundial garden
then in winter nests
just sparrow bones.