Mirror Casket​ [two caskets  side by side     three]

            after De Andrea Nichols and team
 
two caskets side by side     three
 
tilt the mirror    it exists indefinitely
 
the casket is the mirror    the mirror
 
a simple sheet of glass     glued
 
to wooden frame I wonder about
 
each rectangle’s reversed side
 
what color paint hides mercury
 
silver    aluminum   my fingers
 
cannot grasp the mirror’s edges
 
each fingertip imprinted    pressed
 
by metal all the same   what
 
substructure allows the work
 
of reflection    and what’s its cost

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Published in Public Pool