Glasses

April 5th, 2011

Glasses to see
glasses to protect
to project

glasses to read
glasses to let sunshine in
glasses to block UV rays
glasses shaped
cut
doubled up

Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals

glass fittings:
short,
wide,
long,
narrow,
and tall

glasses in view ports
on Navy vessels
telescopes
periscopes
binoculars
microscopes...

Melt sand -
make some glass:
sculpt it
shape it
serve some water,
make it plural
join me!

Glasses to find:
people in the dark
birds in trees
worms in holes
hairs on moles
viruses on malignant growths

I'm honest,
it's true...
glasses to find growths on trees
such as fungi,
plants

Glasses to screen
screens replicating
xerox copies
scannings
scanner art
photographing
teletubing

the Curies discovered radium
Ramsay and Travers discovered neon

small glass screens
assisting in:
calculating
computing
telecommunicating
transferring solar energy

Glasses containing
glasses in colors
chromotherapy
color therapy

Stained glass lamp shades in a bar
stories depicted in the Cathedral

ancient Egyptians created the Dendera Lightbulb

Incandecent Lightbulbs --
Reinvented Filaments:
Davy's platinum,
Lindsay's light demo
De La Rue's vacuum tube enclosure
De Moleyn's powdered charcoal
Gobel's carbonized bamboo
Swan's carbon fiber
Woodward & Evan's gas-filled Globe!
Edison's long lasting
Latimer's better production
Coolidge's tungsten

shining across
through the ones
you drink from
drinks in glasses (again):
wide,
deep,
to shoot
capped bottles
from which - ready to drink

Glasses...

the plexi kind
more stirdy,
firm
sculptors mold & color
decorating
Sasebo Park,
near Albuquerque Bridge

...or the stylings of
the late Luis Jimenez
in El Paso's downtown
these glasses
if you focus
with or
without a pair
of your own
tell some enlightening
Truths.

... of Alligators in prior decades
tortured
Morbidly enjoyed

...the ghost of a Vaquero
his eyes shine red

... A liberal version of Lady Liberty

... tiny
such powerful
dedication to 9-11 fire fighters

... 1996 tragedy
fallen
glass
fallen
artist
His last Mustang...

(silence)

Would I have even pondered
the thought of Glass
and Glasses...

had I been blind?