AGNES NAGY'S MIRROR

Eye lashed
by the Resistance
your face moves
in the mirror
to make up
and take
a chance
from tension
when we mention
other poets
in post-war Hungary
only embrace
a pension,
your marginal lips
traced in red
separated
as a visionary
in a lyrical dissent
with a lovely and contrary
Agnes Nagy reaction
in a musically disciplined
descant and melody
of a ready writer's retraction.