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The speaker in the
next poem is a twin.

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An identical twin.

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[CLEARS THROAT] I was
thinking about the phenomenon

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of identical twins.

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Which is, I think,
endlessly fascinating.

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And it occurred to
me that, in a way,

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identical twins, sort
of, make manifest what

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exists for all of us.

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Because we, the rest of
us who don't have a twin,

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carry out twins inside of us.

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Our doubles.

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"Identical Twins."

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"Because we call for the moon
at exactly the same moment,

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it rises over the
hard packed snow.

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Nor can we differ
about the snow.

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Whether it has to do with dying
or as the merciful blank page,

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we need to start over.

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Sister, you and
I need no mirror.

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It's the others I wonder
about, the twinless ones,

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who move their lips or mutter,
as they walk to work and back,

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inventing you.

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A head, a body, a voice as
true and familiar as their own,

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replying, yes, yes, yes.

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Most of the time it's
their eyes turned inward

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which betray the conversation.

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I think of them,
hurrying home tonight,

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locking their doors to be alone
with a lost indispensable twin.

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Who waits, a brilliant mirror,
on the other side of the dark."

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