The Return
Coming up from my boat In haste to lighten your anxiety, I saw, reflected in the circular metal mirror. The face and hands of a woman Arranging her hair.
Amy Lowell
Coming up from my boat In haste to lighten your anxiety, I saw, reflected in the circular metal mirror. The face and hands of a woman Arranging her hair.
A speaker hurries up from a boat, eager to calm someone who has been anxious about her return. In that rush, she catches sight of a reflection in a round metal mirror: a woman’s face and hands arranging her hair. The moment is small but full of quiet strangeness.
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