200 Words with Chris Katsaropoulos

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Mirror Expectation

Across one sea and through

A hall of mirror expectation

Thorough-going trials which

Glimmer souls their duplication;

Deny the symbol at your peril,

Fly the angels’ punishment and rage

A smothered laugh and jails of

Sons who welter gold and

Silver on the page.

These friends of mine were once

A bothered staff of worn down

Weathered imitations; those faces

Frowned their curfew smiles and

Glimpsed a wall of lucid

Variation; each liquid glance along

The surface wavers any chance

Endeavor of the stars and

Moon among the clouds.

Ghosted streaks across the sky

Initiate the unity and trinity

Of matter; their harmless howls

Around the neighbor’s yard

Reflect the rift and wrack

Of fear and tatter; the painter’s

Brush denies his violet iris mirrors

In your eyes and souls may never

Doubt again they once deceived to flatter.