Poem Category: In the Mirror

Shattered mirror
a perfumed letter caught
fluttering out.

In the mirror
a light globe swinging
with the cat’s green eyes.

In the mirror
the peep of the tots
from our bedroom door.

Braiding blonde tresses
Laurel steps from
her cheval mirror.

Mirrored lake
the moon softly bathing
down to my waist.

Cracked mirror
each half of the room
becomes the other.

In lounge-room mirror
little kneeling sisters
over their butterfly book.

Dentist’s mirror
the cavity
of so much pain.

In the mirror
the mantelpiece Buddha
lit by the moon.

Mirrored
with moonlight
Venus in the lake.