annihilation made, outbound forever till it hits your eye and ends, a green glow, all you see, extinguished starlight, starlight only. Focused by stone, cleaved, bruted, brilliant-cut. No stone like that exists, before 1600.  No world--until us--in chains of glass, hostage to signal: all clearness & purity, fidelity, integrity, traits of the channel, its internal reflection. Objects are answers, unspoken collusions of humans with the earth as it turns,

by stone, cleaved, bruted,
brilliant-cut. No stone
like that
exists, before 1600.
No world--until us--in
chains of glass, hostage