March 19th, 2008
Hot Cold
Glass might show no sign of how fragile it has become, which is perhaps another way of saying it endures things gracefully. If you can hold out until the very last but then shatter completely, have you seemed strong or weak?
Transcriptorial: yet the shock of a single steaming cup / shattered it that winter day
It is good that bodies and minds and hearts, if not metaphors, are made not much like glass.
How can you trust something that looks strong all the time, regardless of how strong it really is?
…How can you not trust someone like that?
Glass is seen as neither weak nor strong. But when it shatters, at least it’s heard.