Stained Glass Windows

'It´s winter again and I Lived another year on golden Light and the echo of love In the touch-stained loops of the subway' The curve of a blade of grass. The night´s electric hum. Creased duvets, crooked floorboards. Early mornings. The unique splendour of undone. Your best friends´ kitchen. A memory hidden - in notes, plain sight, peeling layers of paint. Childhood grass stains. Fresh flowers for your grave. Twirling smoke, twisting shadows. Shattered metaphors catching the light. Galaxies puddle in the gutters of the night. And the addict disposition to write, write, write. The years turn and all is poetry. Stained Glass Windows is a collection of poems drawing deeply from all facets of life. Like the myriad radiant shades typical for church windows, life is a rich spectrum of colours, of emotions. Light falls in, light shines out. Shadows and colours draw the world in all its wonder. And in the end it´s a place of worship.

Persephone Mae is a young poet, studying linguistics at the University of Vienna.