you shall look
as we look
into a mirror
and you shall find
no sorrow or regret
“This mirror,” Mark was nearly yelling, “for as long as I can remember, this mirror has always hung crooked.” Nadine stood on the porch looking out onto the back garden, “Mark honey, you don’t have to yell, I’m right here...now what was it you said, dear?”
Mark had celebrated his birthday last night, Nadine had thrown him a big party at their tiny new apartment, and they were both still a bit tipsy. The drinking had gone on into the wee hours, in spite of the fact that today they’d had to get up early and head over to Mark’s grandma’s house. She had died three weeks earlier, Grandma Vivian, leaving behind her lovely house and garden. Today was the day the family had chosen to go through her stuff deciding who would get what before Mark’s older brother, Jamie, moved into the house.
“This mirror has hung at this weird angle for as long as I can remember,” Mark said softly again as he stood in front of the sizeable three by five foot mirror that was the centerpiece of his grandma’s living room. The top of the mirror leaned out from the wall so that when most people looked into it they saw themselves only from the neck down. “Well Mark,” Nadine came and stood next to him as they both looked at their reflection, “Viv was shorter than most of us, so for her it hung perfectly. And remember how much she loved to look into it?”
Mark thought back on when Vivian had bought the mirror. He had been only a young kid, eight or ten, when his granddad died and Vivian, shortly thereafter, had gone on a long vacation to Indonesia returning home two months later with this huge mirror mounted in a hand carved frame. The frame consisted of mythological figures, women becoming flowers becoming men becoming fish and vice versa, all carved carefully and painstakingly by the magic hand of some craftsman on
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Published on e-Stories.org on 10/31/2006.
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