I
The gallery light left something to be desired.
Electric ghosts in clouds and streaks
told their moral on the bulletproof glass:
the soul will make a mirror of any window.
I shifted. It made no difference at all.
From where I looked into the constant space
of your self-portrait, my own face
shot back at me from your burnished eye
like the floating image on a gypsy’s ball.
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