Her Conceits

She has no use for mirrors and
studiously avoids them believing
that how she thinks she presents in
the full assurance of her maturation
is how she appears to others and
this confidence suits her well. She
values the maturity that has bestowed
the wisdom of years upon her and
hesitates not at all imparting what
she knows to be so to those who
look upon her as their intellectual
chaplain most generously. Even so
she continues to regard herself as
she once was setting aside the girth
of her mature years to settle with little
ease on the floor alongside the girls
considering herself young and lithe
and in the prime of her life despite
that most of those years have fled.