March 29, 2012
Mirror/Mirror
You can’t step twice into the same mirror, said Heraclitus, of the river’s mirror. A vessel holding water was the first mirror. A mirror held to nostrils, life’s last mirror. “Who is fairest?” the queen asked her mirror. A vampire has no reflection in a mirror. Those backward letters without a mirror spell AMBULANCE in your rear-view mirror. After Mom died, I covered all the mirrors with cloth, sat seven days without mirrors. Staring at myself staring in my mirror, “I” became the “other” in the mirror. READ MORE >>
