Mirror Instructions
Be unembarrassed in an unused kitchen,
we are innocent/raspberry tarts behind the glass.
Extracted from the warm bread of love, I am
fluent in culinary ambition.
Be optimistic when peppered with a muse.
Groucho Marx presents the boy with the biggest heart.
He earns the skyline, giver of buttered devotion.
I abandon the script from my teenage life
and am sophisticated, a Francophile.
Dinner is served on a silver platter.
Over tip like a wet dream sent from paradise
the appetite chants louder –
and my mouth breaks into its favorite refrain.
Nathalia Perozo received her MFA from The New School, where she served as Co-Chair of the Feminist Writer’s Organization. Her current project is a collection of poems inspired by Marilyn Monroe entitled Divinity. Nathalia lives and works in New York City.
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