Poem Category: In the Mirror

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

Pink bedroom
her thirteenth birthday
begins in the mirror.

In the mirror
the light globe leaving
its heat outside.

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

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

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

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

Lake picnic
no one seeing
the canoe drift away.

Sundial garden
a cricket chirp short
of twilight.

In the mirror
the orange tree swinging
its solitary fruit.