To the Girl in the Mirror

J.P. Iglesias


Allow yourself for once to look

into the pool of silvery you:

see how your legs rise up to meet

your thighs and hips so holding your nave

and chest — oh, grace, what makes your flesh

arouse to song the world — marred world!

Your skin, your lips, your eyes, what more?

Your wits, your heart to adore — alas!

  The glass can't show what I so love,

  thus your must bear my slippery song,

        you, mirror girl.


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