One night the skylight
cracked beneath a possum's
thudding weight: a triangle
of pebble glass, embedded
with wire mesh for strength,
lay in slivers on the bathroom floor;
a piercing star glanced through.
The other sections, split
haphazardly, their edges skewed,
rely on countervailing wire
inlaid to baffle gravity.
The jagged triangle of sky
this morning is intensely blue.