Speculum

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Have you ever
Stood in front
Of a mirror,
And when you
Walk away
The reflection
Remains?

Have you ever
Walked across
To a mirror
To find that
Your reflection
Is already there
Waiting for you,
But it is
Back-to-front
And looking the other way?

Have you ever
Returned
To a mirror
To see if
Your reflection
Is still there,
And you find
That it is,
But the mirror
Itself
Has gone?

Do you
Sometimes feel
That you are not
Looking in the mirror
At all,
But rather
The mirror
Is looking in you?

But how
Are we to discover
What the mirror sees?

And how do we know
Whether the mirror finds
What it is looking for?

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Stokes mirror
A photograph

Antique Regency mirror
A photograph

Mirror Hall
A photograph

Unwanted answer
A photograph

Critical reflection
A photograph

Venus at her Mirror
(The Rokeby Venus) - A painting by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez

Mademoiselle Lange as Danaë
A picture by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

The Illustrated Mermaid
A picture by David Delamare

Positive reflection
A picture from the Lady Bunny Blog


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Contact

Reflective

Strong decision

Cheese sandwich

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Strong decision

She catches her reflection
In a shop window.
It is true.
She has a beer belly.

She looks again.
It protrudes tightly,
Like beer bellies protrude tightly.
And it wobbles,
Like beer bellies wobble.

There is no doubt about it.
That women in the reflection
Has got a definite beer belly.
Fat cow.

She considers going
To a shady Harley Street
Cosmetic surgeon,
With no qualifications,
But plenty of scalpels,
And a voracious bank balance,
And having her abdomen removed,
And replaced with a sleek,
Plastic alternative.

Or she could go to the gym
And bounce about like a porpoise
In a leotard
And be smiled at knowingly
By younger women
With bodies like snakes.

Or she could go home
And have three thick slices
Of baked beans on buttered toast,
Followed by
A tub of health-promoting
Mango ice cream
With custard
And chocolate sauce.

She takes the strong decision
And goes home
To wobble in private.



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Eating disorder

Lose weight feel great

Slinky ClubGirl goes out on the town

Above Winchester

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Reflective

She puts on some music,
And looks in the mirror.

The music doesn't suit her.
And there is no food in the mirror,
Just glass
And a silvery reflective layer.

She looks at her reflection
Slowly
Eye to eye.

Who on Earth
Is that person
In the mirror
Looking back?

What does she want?
And why does she stare so intently?


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Magic Roundabout pyjamas

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Contact

She looks into a mirror.
A female wolf looks back.

Several hundred miles away
In the Arctic circle,
A female wolf looks into a mirror.
A female human being looks back.

It must be a software error,
Or a case of identity theft.

Or, just possibly,
The animal people
Are making contact at last.


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Mermaid

Speculum

Interdimensional travels

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