Roman Glass

What started out as silica to the Phoenicians
became the Roman art on the dining room table.
Cage-cups , perfume bottles, animal flasks, and fluted bottles,
dyed with manganese, iron(II) oxide, copper, lead, and cobalt.
Exhibiting bubbles of air caught in time,
till found shattered in some grave.

a cobalt cage glass
a gleam of red sangria
collects the glass tears