Mirror

Rita Dove

Mirror,Mirror
take thisthis take
fromfrom
me:me:
my blasted gaze,gaze blasted, my
sunken,sunken
astonishment. Resolveresolve, astonishment.
memory & rebuild; shame’llShame’ll rebuild & memory
dissolvedissolve
under powder pressed intointo pressed powder under
my skin.skin, my
Oh, avalanche, my harbor:harbor, my avalanche. Oh
can II can
looklook
over you;you over;
pit & pustule, crease & blotchblotch & crease, pustule & pit
without seeing
you through you—seeing without
if all I amyou, through you.
(Am I all?)Am I all if
is Woe isall I am
me?is Woe is
 me?