Poem Category: In the Mirror

Rocking chair
in – – out of the mirror
grandmother’s crochet.

Lightning
a crack across
the lake’s mirror.

Small clear lake
below the mirror
flint-stone tools from the past.

In the mirror
deflating on the floor
a child’s birthday balloons.

In the dresser mirror
my wedding ring passed over
by moonlight.

Friday seance
our blanket covering
the mirror’s crack.

In the mirror
her un-ravelled hem
others saw all day.

In the mirror
the blue of her baby’s eyes
suckled at the breast.

Attic dust
the cracked mirror
the cracked mirror’s broken toys.

Sundial garden
then in winter nests
just sparrow bones.