The Cracked Mirror of Love

for John Maxwell Taylor

Deep inside the sleeping man

There’s a dormant woman waiting

For the love of the dormant man

Astir in the woman sleeping

On the other side of the bed

Deep inside the sleeping woman

There’s a dormant man yearning

To love the dormant woman

Astir inside the sleeping man

Who lies just across the bed

Through the cracked mirror of love

The imago rears its loving body

Informed and emboldened it embraces

The body without body that resides
Only inside the true lover’s head