Lois T1
Streaked Lighting
In Delft, as in much of the overcrowded, reclaimed flatland that is Holland, the houses are tall and thin, shuttering out sunlight, preventing it falling on the cobbled streets or the blank canvas of a murky canal.
Stepped gables let in streaks of light that land in jagged lines, dissecting narrow lanes where women once walked in clogs, dressed in black from head to toe (save a little white lace adorning the top of the head).
Elsewhere in the flat open polders, the light blazes down, or falls softly, mingled with a mist that hugs the fields where cattle graze on unconcerned. But there in the narrow streets of Delft, light is streaked and falls like wind-driven rain.
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