This Is A Photograph Of Me by Margaret Atwood - All Poetry
You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.
Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
FRAGMENT UIT SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR
The balloon pops, the attention
Turns dully away. Clouds
In the puddle stir up into sawtoothed fragments.
I think of the friends
Who came to see me, of what yesterday
Was like. A peculiar slant
Of memory that intrudes on the dreaming model
In the silence of the studio as he considers
Lifting the pencil to the
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