1) When you look at something closely, it looks different than it does as a whole.

2) It looks more vulnerable, more patchy.

3) Light is not material, but it is an illusion.

4) When you squint, little squares detach, move, and reassemble.

5) Even though I know it is flat, it looks as if it is tilting backwards.

6) Leaning shakily away from me, scared to start.

7) It looks shaky, as if the slightest whispers would send it flying.

8) Cherubs' faces, frozen in concrete smiles, no longer a surprise.

9) Their harps are frozen in their last sweet chord, now alabaster.

10) The fake curtains on the wall give the illusion of flowing movement.