Light
Eased eyes open, showed leaves. Eyes laughing and childish Ran among flowers of leaves And looked at light's bridge Which led from leaf, upward, and back down to leaf. Eyes uncertain Tested each semblance Light seemed to smile. Eyes ran to the limit To the last leaf To the last vein of the least flower-leaf. Light smiled, And smiled and smiled Eyes Darkened Afraid suddenly That this was all there was to it.
Light - form Summary
A Narrowing Field of Vision
The poem uses short free-verse units that repeatedly return to eyes and light, narrowing its focus from leaves and flowers to a single final fear. Its increasingly spare ending visually and rhythmically enacts the speaker's darkening perception. What begins as playful attention to the natural world becomes anxiety that the visible world, however beautiful, may contain no further meaning.
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