Leaded Light

The glass is cut,

so carefully cut,

so carefully arranged

to break up the light

as it reflects it.

Smooth joints

enhanced

with curving strips of soft lead

to fragment the light.

Light cracked by lead,

bright white 

or gilded by sunshine

or bent into rainbows

refracted

to paint colours in reflected shadows

to fall in straight shafts onto grey paving.

The reflection is fragmenting

as it falls

breaking up the grey,

so that even the shafts 

of multi-coloured illumination

can make no sense of it.

There’s no sense to be made.

The paving is crazy

now,

simply crazy.

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