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# Mirror, Mirror
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/mirror-mirror/
- Published: 2023-06-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: her lustrous hair as smooth as satin she wills her wrinkles: smoothen, flatten and scans her neck and naked shoulder for any sign she's getting older a nagging fear she can't forget and sighs: none visible, as yet
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

her lustrous hair as smooth as satin  
she wills her wrinkles: smoothen, flatten  
and scans her neck and naked shoulder  
for any sign she's getting older  
a nagging fear she can't forget  
and sighs: none visible, as yet

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**Author notes:** image from smithsonianmagazine.com