mirror – haiku and other animals

and though I’ve made so many plans
when I look in the mirror by accident

before a shower a small bird tumbles
down the stair forgetting about wings and so

we come to this moment when momentous
things may be mouthed into the shabby mirror

of the sky and from the neighbor’s apartment
something like a snort or sigh

already past as long as you can stay undecided about how to walk on the shards of this mirror after months of wind whipping the whys of juvenalia

deep in the living room in the mirror my wife’s leg