Death Is A Mirror Leaking Lightning Poem by Dónall Dempsey

That last long long telephone conversation...three hours then my phone ran out and he called me back for another three hours. One of the topics was...what lightning is, and what it can do and the superstitions that grow up about it.People covered all the mirrors in their house when a person dies or because they can "catch and reflect" lightning…mirrors leak lightning. It was thought that lightning can behave like light and be reflected. Lightning of course is not light, but a raw, electrical charge. The phrase 'leak lightning' really struck me and I hadn't heart it before. As a electrician he was able to tell me in detail what lightning was and does! All the technical stuff I can no longer remember but everything said in that last telephone conversation has now taken on life of its own.