She Checks Herself Poem by Richard G Berg

She checks herself
In the wardrobe's long mirror
Of her grandparent's bedroom

Reflections are not singular
Checking chokes the present being blind
Selects what seems stranded
From the clutter left behind

Face creams, maps and masks
Haphazard on bedside tables
Resolving and dissolving
A mirror's many fables

Her look, looking to approve
Her gently flowering ways
Inherits the room's requiem
Mirroring future days



Richard G Berg
September 2021