John Grey
He wakes up
to some nurse with a mirror.
“This is you,” she says.
He looks in the glass
at this scary looking ogre
with stitched-up cheeks,
blotchy mouth,
and eyes black as coalmines.
It’s really his memory
that could do with the mirror,
because when he stares at it direct,
there’s nothing there.
“You were in an accident,”
the nurse explains.
“A bad one.”
“Were there any passengers?”
She shakes her head.
“What about my car?”
Ah yes,
his car,
his prize Chevy Impala –
in a junk yard,
three miles from the hospital,
the proprietor walks down toward
the latest chunk of concertinaed metal
to be towed into his lot.
In his hand
is a mirror.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, City Brink and Tenth Muse. Latest books, “Subject Matters”,” Between Two Fires” and “Covert” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, Amazing Stories, and Cantos.