Glass Earring



Picked up a very strange thing the other day

A little bauble had been made from nature

It was a small round orange seed that stayed

On edge, where it had fallen from tree pure



And around it, there had developed an ice shell

Wrapping half-way around the seed so very well

So much so, it looked like one of those earpieces

Which ladies buy sometimes at stores to treat us



- To the delight of pretty faces adorned with baubles

Hanging down from earlobes on either side quite free

The color and shine usually dazzle us with their joyful

- Images which we connect then, with the face, to a tee



If only there could have been a way to preserve the piece

Then, it would have looked so pretty on face - a new lease

But there was no way to keep the whole thing yet together

For current thaw has changed it back to a seed uncovered ...



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

10:40am Sunday 2/8/98



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