Mirrorful

Eyes are gazing on boys who explode from springboards to shell the sea, and joyfully splinter its mirrorful of sunset.

He is indeed, no Fra Angelico holding up a little mirrorful of Heaven, with heart and mind so filled to overflowing with the Beatific Vision, as to leave no room for understanding of earthly misery and sin.

OUR CHEERFUL MIRRORFUL

He felt his mind fading, the keys of the piano red, the glass pillars holding up the world cracking one by one, each with a separate sound like a toothache. Above the splitting he still tried to explain to Joseph, to explain to McKay. He tried to weep. And they didn’t hear him, but ground on. Thousands of them. Mirrorsful of them . . . The keys of the piano were hard, and slightly warm, and stretched away white again like satin ribbon.

Yet I concede pride’s pool, that mirrorful, / Aflare with the armadas of a day: / Science like elate Longfellow’s Ship of State, / Praises about the prow, factory-loud / Midships scattering light, a peacock wake; […]

Mountain ponies / Driving before dawn, higher than the kindling streams where gradients were too steep for grass, I glimpsed them, life-like, a mirrorful silvered on the dark, gouged like a frieze along edges of rock.

Distress works on the face of that woman who would look for herself in me as if in a mirrorful of smiling meadows, and at the one you will see as oddly alien: my own ghost condemned to my form of this world.

The rare breaks from the mirrorfuls of poets work best: for example, the droll humour of “Buchanan’s Fancy”, where body-searches in Belfast are seen as sought-after sexual titillation.

Thistledown hung suspended, a canopy of stars overhead, a mirrorful of stars beneath.

Steve himself had a mirrorful of blue ribbons at home from previous Potter’s archery tournaments, but Rita didn’t have to know that.

Anyway, aside from the ongoing irritation of a mirrorful of wing, you tend to forget about the surface excitement when you’re snugged into the excellent driver’s seat and the flat-four engine starts emitting its authoritative bark.

I’m thinking, I’ll get a mirrorful of coke, set it on the end of the bed, and when she bends over to get it, nail her.

Whether impasse takes over the puddle or speeches the mirrorful side-step.

Bev scooped up a mirrorful of the icy water at her feet and followed Alder through the rocky den and out its second entrance, which was even narrower than the first.

In the mirrorful elevator a few women looked at him with dread lest his soppiness should smirch their fabrics.

The room is a clean, mirrorful knockout; […]

To use the mirror to position herself differently as a difference that makes a difference, as a mirrorful space which is concave; convex; opaque; transparent; distorted and distorting; disoriented; shattered; broken […]

I’ve cowarded into a quiet shape / Passing alone into an empty mirror / Refusing to see myself, using my cape / To cover all mirrorful eyes like a deathsheet drape.