<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;background-color:transparent">
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">MISTAKING MIRRORS</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

</font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The sky is so empty</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

</font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">like I’m told to be.</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The problem is</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

</font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">I can’t sit still:</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">a child bored</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

</font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">by the beach.</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">And when I’m empty</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

</font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">I echo, and it hurts –</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">that’s something,</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

</font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">a</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> thing:</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">one bird breaks</font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br>

</font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">the whole sky.</font></span></div>

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</font></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;white-space:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:17px"><span style="font-family:inherit"><b>Rebecca Farivar</b>'s poems have been published in <i>Denver Quarterly</i>, <i>Octopus</i>, <i>6X6</i>, </span><span style="font-family:inherit"><i>Parcel</i>, <i>cold-drill</i>, and elsewhere. Octopus Books will publish her first full-length collection </span><span style="font-family:inherit">of poems in 2011 and her chapbook <i>American Lit</i> (Dancing Girl Press) is also due out this </span><span style="font-family:inherit">year. A California native, she holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary's College of California </span><span style="font-family:inherit">and currently lives in Bonn, Germany.</span></span></font></span></div>

</span><br>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org" target="_blank">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>