Poem Category: In the Mirror

In the garage mirror

a closer lean on father

repairing her doll-pram’s wheel.

Braiding blonde tresses

Laurel steps from

her cheval mirror.

No one watching…

the mirror brings moonlight

to the child’s sleep.

In the mirror

I feel the weight

of the grandchild’s smile.

Home alone

mirrors in the mirrors mirror

his mother’s shattered mirror.

In the mirror

a sprinkle of strangers

around Father’s wake.

In the mirror

the blue of her baby’s eyes

suckled at the breast.

In the dam’s mirror

migrating geese cry out

where the houses were.

Mirrored

returning to rock pools

the full moon tide.

Bathroom mirror

his apology’s rose

on the toothpaste shelf.