| Silver Smoothness She looked through the mirror and prayed that she would find her destiny. two faces illumined by the reflected light of a single candle in the self depreciating moments she sings her body into being and calls it love She sank to the floor and slept to seek her pale, lost dream embraces reached out to all four corners of the world from the self-depleting fragments she pours her mind into song and names it light She woke at the window and wondered why she'd never seen her death from here dream places vanished like the faded reflections behind her eyes in the self-defacing smoothness she drives her soul into night and frames the life Christa Midcap 9-28-01 |