fic, m i r r o r m i r r o r

[tailfeather]

Not every mirror shows your true self,
authenticity is in the eyes of the beholder.
Still, her mirror image appears as
all black plumage, she’s sharp, pale
contours softened only by shade.

Her mirror image must, then, be wrong,
she can't be so close to disappearing.
Let her mirror image, then, be gone.

This sense of transparency reduces her
to a flittering show of feathers and flight.