“Mirror Mirror” by Victor Enns
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Mirror Mirror
By Victor Enns
I crashed my wheelchair into the dresser
the mirror jumped, swept the cds off the top of the stereo
landed just so, not breaking, landing enough
on the bed not to shatter, but loose in the frame,
with nothing to reflect except the spackled ceiling.
My mirror rests, no more selves
to see nothing but ceiling โ
no coupling to reflect.
Copyright ยฉ Victor Enns
Previously published in the way out is the way in (LCP Chapbook Series, 2021)
Victor Enns listens to music, reads and writes in his new home in Kelowna, BC, where he lives with disability rights activist Michelle Hewitt and two Bernese Mountain Dogs. His poems have recently appeared in Grain (2021), Rattle (2020) and nonfiction in wordgarthering (online, U.S., 2020). His collection Love and Surgery (2019 Radiant Press ) is about love, loss and amputation. He is, he says, donating one limb to medical science at a time. Ennsโ writing, recent live performances and video-casts, available on his website www.victorenns9.com, speak of his lived experience as a disabled man, with physical and mental illnesses instigating chronic pain.
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