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