The Arts Council of Appling County recently held its first poetry contest. My poem came in second!

Here it is:

 

Most Insincere Form

 

Photographs of snow do not melt.
No wives are widowed by paintings of soldiers.

 
My echo is more talkative than me
And my shadow’s taller.

 
The lovers I meet in my dreams
Are gone by sunrise.

 
And not a word on this page
Was handwritten.

 
The man in the mirror
Reflects well on me.

 
Such insincere imitation
Must be flattery.