The Light Arrested - Lee Perron

[Larry Robinson]

The Light Arrested
 
 
When we have passed the Day of the Dead
and have seen the light drawn out thin
on the horizon like vague ships,
and Night and Cold are two kings on the land
 
and a third enters, the Pacific Ocean
raising itself in colossal waves silently
over the western slopes, flooding the earth
and falling on the interior plains
 
then our hearts, then our hearts
are fish in a trackless ocean
and we find that this is heaven, this cold
motionless place and the light arrested
 
for everything we see— the fields and fences
and the trees and the surging fog—
is filled with that luminous presentness
here from before the start of time.
 
	- Lee Perron
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