The woman in the mirror knows
you. She smiles and
tosses her black hair back
over bare shoulders.
Lips part as if she were a bloom
about to burst in your gaze.
Today you are a stranger
to me, whose gaze is fair
weather forecast yesterday,
discarded
on a ledge. Nothing more.
The woman in the mirror knows
today you are a stranger--
you! She smiles, and
to me, whose gaze is fair,
tosses her black hair back,
weather forecast yesterday
over bare shoulders. Her
discarded
lips part as if she were a bloom
on a ledge. Nothing more
about to burst in your gaze.
Miriam Kotzin
In addition to riverbabble and Doorknobs & Bodypaint, Kotzin's poetry and fiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Shenandoah, Boulevard, The Flea, Anemonie Sidecar, and Eclectica. Kotzin has published three collections of poetry, most recently, Taking Stock (Star Cloud Press 2011) and a collection of flash fiction, Just Desserts (Star Cloud Press, 2010). Professor of English and co-director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing at Drexel University, Kotzin teaches creative writing and literature. She is a contributing editor of Boulevard and a founding editor of Per Contra.