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To Be Written On The Mirror In Whitewash

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To Be Written On The Mirror In Whitewash by Elizabeth Bishop

 I live only here, between your eyes and you, 
But I live in your world. What do I do? 
--Collect no interest--otherwise what I can; 
Above all I am not that staring man.

Form: Quatrain

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