Jennifer Lynn

Leonora's Looking Glass
— after Leonora Carrington

she is smooth volcanic skin vitreous glass
but fractures with sharp edges
glass knives sharper than the steel
edge of a scalpel trepanned lustrous
brunette in the obsidian mirror reflected
in golden blonde looking into a pool of oil
anointed in ivory black made from
the soot of bones bone char lightfast
fingers smudge smoke the eyes
tears fall black globules plip plip
scrying into her soup dive out of her depth
into the sacred cave sweated cenotes
subterranean rivers ribs coated in glittering calcite
sacrificed she is the pot that calls
the kettle the great smoking mirror
she finds her double in the polished obsidian
polished gold in hand flying with mirrored
forehead making crossing after crossing
the hero twins in horses' heads with hyenas on leads
find each other in oil slick
in the painted black of her pointed boot

Jennifer Lynn is a writer based in Bray, Co. Wicklow. She has recently begun writing poetry.