I became myself. I became myself.
No, I always was myself. There’s no such person as myself.
I wouldn’t have to turn my eye inward, I thought, if I could train my eye
on him—the one I loved. But I was wrong. My eye loved
everything it fell upon. And then one day it fell upon
a mirror. And he was nowhere in the mirror. And she was everywhere.
Maggie MillnerMaggie Millner is the author of Couplets, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2023.