Poem: Mirror, Mirror...On His Wall

I didn’t have a mirror in my room

I realised this only after she asked:

do you have a mirror in your room? I tried to lie and say yes

I was instantly found out.

She moved across the corridor and into his room

she stared at herself long enough in his mirror

until he finally made it back down the hill

and into his room, closing the door

leaving me to wonder just …