Mirrors
i like to dress for an imaginary girl
(we will meet each other soon) by putting on
a silk tie with subtle Chinese birds
sewn in.
she may be picturing me in her mirror
as she applies exactly the necessary line
of mascara to lengthen her lashes and darken
her eyes.
whatever begins as a mystery ends as a blind,
the nuances so well known
that birds chirp violently at their mirror images
but the pools
as they are revealed in the sunlight of
every accidental nod of the eyes remain
calm as a mirror in which there is no
image ever seen.
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Submitted by Robert Ronnow on March 23, 2023
Modified on March 23, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 106 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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