Thank you to Editor Brian Geiger of Vita Brevis for publishing my poem.

https://vitabrevisliterature.com/2018/10/20/masks-and-mirrors-a-poem-by-linda-imbler/




Caravaggio-Narcissus:  Courtesy of Vita Brevis

Hostilities not advertised,
strong sugarcoated resentment,
reflected projections behind
faces always so well disguised.

Subtle insults toward those despised,
vindictive intents kept mirrored
in those hearts competing below
faces always so well disguised.

Somehow cheated and agonized,
fretful, thoughtless pretense cast back,
to be seen from eyes set within
faces always so well disguised.