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What the Mirror Said

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on October 23, 2025| 14 Comments »


                  after lucille clifton
 
 
After all these years
of looking in the mirror,
you still don’t see
what’s in you. There
have been times
I wanted to shatter
into slivers so you
won’t be tempted
to trust me, but I
am not the problem.
Listen, sweetheart:
Trust yourself. Trust
no mirror could
ever know the truth
of you. There are whole
mountain ranges
of wonder inside you,
unfathomable oceans
no mirror could ever
show. Go wander
and swim in your
own wilderness
until you don’t
need me anymore.

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Reflection

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on December 21, 2018| 2 Comments »

 

 

We are the dust that sings.

            —Art Goodtimes

 

 

She has learned not to trust the mirror.

When she is not near it, she’s beautiful.

Here, in firelight, she knows herself

as one of many stems in an enormous

bouquet, all of them lovely. And in moonlight,

she shines along with the rest of the shining world.

And in the longest night, she is the dust

that dances, dust that sings, dust that knows beauty

everywhere it looks, inside, outside.

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