Tristimania

Cures of patients, who suppose themselves to be glass, may easily be performed by pulling a chair, upon which they are about to sit, from under them, and afterwards showing them a large collection of pieces of glass as the fragments of their bodies.

Dr. Benjamin Rush

Tinted windows in the killer’s Camaro, burnished windows of the Wall Street skyscraper, bulletproof windows of the Popemobile, stained-glass window made in my grandfather’s name (gold makes the wine-red colour), window-face of my father’s watch, cracked glass in the parking lot, shards in the park sandbox, encasement of light in bulb, substrate of the looking glass. Look at my history:

I fancied of glass, first my fingers and then arms. Once translucent, I let the...