Glass

1. Crystal:
The elephant,
fragile, distorts the waves
trumbling out of the lamp,
and throws an angry rainbow
on the wall.

The earrings slip
out of the case, their icicles
hang from a screw, and drip light
on your shoulders.

In the valley that the snow cannot reach,
It is cold and dry; the ice on the mountain
Looks down at it and laughs.

2. Window:
“You must hurry up if we are to make it.”
I lounge on the chair.

The creatures below carry their light well.
Ants with lanterns, they rush home with food.

At a certain line, the moon bends,
And the stream twists to get a better view of our room.

One creature looks up: me on the chair,
You at the mirror, and we giving them a light from above.

3. Windscreen:
Soundless driving. In this cage, we hold
Ourselves together as best we can

By looking at a road...some road, this road.
A dog barks in the distance.
The windscreen does not let me see it.

4. Cup:
The wine seeps into the deep red carpet,
And is lost.
The maid cleans up the pieces,
Relax,
It was not our cup.

Sravana Reddy

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