"Daily he told me I was beautiful,
my breast cupped in his palm cured
me of any doubt. So you see why

I cannot gaze at my own nakedness.
Mirrors tell you nothing about love.
The tilted fir outside my window

stands taller than our house. Even if
I described each tuft, counted
branches, became its mirror,

you could never love it as I do,
understand how it kept me faithful,
stood watch with me when the other tree fell."

— Doris Ferleger, Mirrors (via grammatolatry)

(via grammatolatry)

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