Check Your Mirrors

April—National Poetry Month, so that means I do not have to explain why I am again sharing poetry. This month will include some contemporary verse, such as the one in this week’s column, but look for some classics and originals, too. Anyone who grew up in the 1970s with Rod McKuen and Simon and Garfunkel is lying if she said she did not have a diary with sappy poems about heartache, the movie …