Carmel Bird’s father was an optometrist.
His collection of lenses
suggest ways
to look at
ice.
All together they tinkle
like melting crystals:
one by one
chiming
bells.
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It looks like the first splitting of cells to become an embryo.
So it does!
It could be the embryo of an idea.
Carmel Bird (the writer) gave me these lenses when she was last in Tasmania, cleaning up her parents’ house. Each one different, they show how differently we see.
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Those rippled champagne flutes you gave me are lenses too.
They drink in the view!
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