No Mirror Above

I feel my toes in the fog.

They ache—anchoring down

Like the buried roots

Of despondent trees.


There is no mirror above,

There is only

The thick slate hue

Of a single cloud—paneling

A layer of what today means.


I feel my fingers in the fog.

They twinge

As the melancholic air does

During the autumn churn.


There is no mirror above,

We are the evaporating rain

With waning fingerprints,

Like the morning moon—

In an existence that burns.