Ninety-Six Pieces of Colored Glass

west wall · ring the petals · move the sun

 

Stand in it. Let the red fall across your sleeve and the blue pool in your open hand. Nobody buys a ticket, nobody has to understand the glass, and the window does not check whether you looked up — it simply keeps doing this, morning after morning, hurling whole harvests of color onto a plain stone floor for the pure extravagance of it.