Daily Poem: A Mirror ~ Jean Follain
A Mirror
~ Jean Follain
Translated from French by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass
Having gone upstairs
on steps of dark oak
she finds herself before
a mirror with a worm-eaten frame
she contemplates in it her virgin torso
all the countryside is ablaze
and gently arrives at her feet
a domestic beast
as if to remind her
of the animal life
which conceals in itself also
the body of a woman.
