An antique mirror browned
at the edges, now hangs in my entryway.
It sees me, pauses, searching for my grandmother.
Brought home after the burial,
rescued from the estate sale.
I clung to constancy, finding only change.
A.R. Williams, a poet from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, is the author of A Funeral in the Wild (2024) and Time in Shenandoah (2024). Website: virginiapoet.com.
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