A Spherical Mirror Comments

I love to read your poems the day they are written. It collapses the distance between us with its immediacy! // This is an inspired poem, Liza, and I absolutely love it. It begins with sly humor - and truth-telling: SMALL LIAR/SMALL SINNER. But suddenly in the third stanza you drop the irony and humor and state with eloquent clarity: YOU HAVE BECOME MY MIRROR... ALL IS REFLECTED etc. This is so true, Liza, and you express it so simply but profoundly. But it's the last stanza that took my breath. The way you show our lives and loves are actually part of a much bigger reality, namely, TO GOD, and the last two lines combine the mirror image, the togetherness theme, in a heightened awareness of the eternal in the temporal, that is, God presiding over everything, including us two, small liars, small sinners, big lovers, happy persons! GOD MIRRORS US IN ALL TURNINGS, WHERE EVERY MOTION IS LOVE. What a beautiful statement of faith! What a benign view of life! Love, big and small, triumphs in your poem.