Length 46cm (18inches) Handmade dichroic cabochon from 'Misty Valley Studios' czech fire polished glass, delicas. Hand stitched embroidery beadwork with dutch spiral straps.

I've stood on thinner sheets. Took crunching walks
On leaf-embodying and lumpy glass
To a sidewalk's abrupt end, along a bright
Section of newly-insulated path,
Over a prickling hump of weedy dam

And onto this broad opening in the words: lake,
Brown language adrift with plants and fish,
Masked underneath a civilizing white
Tectonic crystalline, a cloudy plate.

Sun burned horizon black, and then went down;
The honed air slipped and whisked across the lake.
Flare, pile of glassleaves!--no--fail, pyre:
An undecided dusk gave out at last.

Snow deepened to an ashen regolith,
A lunar cast. Too cold. I found a path;
An alphabet of shadows followed me,
Seeming to indicate a leak of light,
The thinnest wash of dusk: plum aquarelle.