Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.
I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
Flowers are an education in a vase.