In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Broken”.

It is in the nature of everything

To be broken repeatedly in pieces fine

For every breakage is destined to bring

The pieces together in a novel design

With a massive breakage the universe began

A giant mass of matter broke with the big bang

And gave birth to the sun, the earth, and man;

Life as we know it, the whole shebang!

This picture is from a glass sculpture at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY. The artist has depicted crows feeding on a carrion with pieces of broken red glass to signify a bloody carnage. This represents the breakdown of the centuries-old glass industry in Murano, Venice, Italy.