Reflection

My children think the mirror is glass
but you know it’s metal, right?
—The reflecting bit that makes it what it is.
Thin, thinner than anything, a foil, only; a coating;
else the object is a window, a plane of glass.
We all have a bit like that, too: thin, thinner than anything
and its reflection makes us what they think we are.
It’s not the heaviest part; it’s hard to notice;
but sometimes, as with mirrors
I wonder what we really look like.



Feb 2023

Existence

The exploring pawn arrives at a diagonal

but isn't taken; what remains is potential

while other pieces develop, staring down

the threat of a conflict not their own.  They

"leave the tension," a commentator says

of the masters behind this savage dance

as the frozen pawns lock eyes, waiting

to discover who will be the first to break.

feb 2023