Shadow Mirror
Margo Stutts Toombs
October 22, 2022
Shadow mirror tucked in a back corner
Clothed in dust and cobwebs
A Dorian Gray to hold her nightmares
Frozen in glass and tarnished silver
Clothed in dust and cobwebs
Old fears hide in the dark
Frozen in glass and tarnished silver.
She feels it in her heart.
Old fears hide in the dark
Growing like a virus
She feels it in her heart.
Salvation waits in the sunlight.
Growing like a virus
Her Dorian mirror horrifies
Until she thrusts it into the sunlight
And scrubs the mirror tucked in a back corner.
Margo Stutts Toombs enjoys creating and performing poetry. Her work lives in FreezeRay Poetry, Untameable City - Mutabilis Press, the Texas Poetry Calendar, Love over 60: An Anthology of Women’s Poems, The Ekphrastic Review, the Friendswood Library Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, Equinox, and Synkronicity. She performs spoken-word poetry at fringe festivals.
