AVAILING HEART

Looking directly
into available
humanity
I don’t.
Not here,
not there,
I don’t
not know why,
I don’t.
Fear to see,
fear of mirrors;
mirrored
mirror vertigo?
Yes,
I don’t
not know why
I don’t.
But for you,
availing
heart, I do
directly;
and fear no mirror
I transformed into us.

Gary Minkler