mirrored glass

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Dead Poets

 

"mirrored glass"

 

 

A draft slips beneath the heavy cedar door,

neither a gale of the high peaks, nor a sigh

 

but it finds marrow. 

Such bittersweet pivot,

this calibrator of pulse,

 

stirrer of ash in the hearth we left cold.

Like a sudden rain on dry eucalyptus,

 

I am undone again by what I cannot hold,

the joints of my fingers losing their grip

on mirrored glass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

exercise in Sapphic adjacency

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