spun out like
drawn boiled sugar
ephemeral hair curled ’round
paper cones
cracked peanut shells
sawdust
pH balanced soap warm water
wash clean tear-streaked
greasepaint
when the only face
looking out
from inside the mirror
is mine
boiled balanced
clean cones cracked curled
drawn
ephemeral
face from
greasepaint
hair
inside is
looking like
mine the mirror
the only out
paper peanut pH
’round
sawdust shells soap spun sugar
tear-streaked
when water wash warm