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The balsam bloom hangs low and heavy among the wooded figures on this rise as leaf dappled light flickers, sending shadows scattering. The bright sun concealed in momentary relief gives haloes to the greenery and I trace their delicate veins with my eyes. A ladybird catches my attention, scuttling along a twig. I watch her crawl before pausing for a moment, small fine wings like droplets of water quivering in hesitation on her back.

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“Light may travel in a straight line, but it is refracted, diffused, it floods, it fills—the eye is a sort of bowl—it flows over, too, it necessitates, around the ocular bowl, a whole series of organs, mechanisms, defenses”

Jacques Lacan, Four Fundamental Concepts: 94

1a: something that makes vision possible
b: the sensation aroused by stimulation of the visual receptors
c: electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength that travels in a vacuum with a speed of 299,792,458 meters (about 186,000 miles) per second
specifically : such radiation that is visible to the human eye
2a: DAYLIGHT
was up each morning at the first light
— Frank O'Connor
b: DAWN
3: a source of light: such as
a: a celestial body
As night fell the lights in the sky multiplied.
b: CANDLE
put a light in the window
c: an electric light
4a: a color of notable lightness : a light or pale color —usually plural
Bartlett allows his preliminary wash or grisaille to dry and then applies transparent layers of broken color. Into this wash he adds the lights and darks as they have been mapped out underneath.
— Harley Bartlett
blights plural : clothing that is light in color
always washed his lights separately from his darks
5archaic : SIGHT sense 4a
6a: spiritual illumination
the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it
— John 1:5 (Revised Standard Version)
b: INNER LIGHT
c: ENLIGHTENMENT
reaching out and groping for a pathway to the light
— B. N. Cardozo
d: TRUTH
7a: public knowledge
facts brought to light
b: a particular aspect or appearance presented to view
saw the matter in a different light
8: a particular illumination
9: something that enlightens or informs
shed some light on the problem
10: a medium (such as a window) through which light is admitted
11lights plural : a set of principles, standards, or opinions
worship according to one's lights
— Adrienne Koch
12: a noteworthy person in a particular place or field
a literary light among current writers
— see also LEADING LIGHT
13: a particular expression of the eye
listened with a fiery light burning in her eyes
— Sherwood Anderson
14a: LIGHTHOUSE, BEACON
b: TRAFFIC LIGHT
15: the representation of light in art
16: a flame for lighting something (such as a cigarette)
in the light of
1: from the point of view of
2or in light of : in view of
In light of their findings, new procedures were established.

Little chains of raindrops caught on
the wind fall against my window
Rows of glistening incandescent
crystals framed by the black night
beyond

Solvent stars have fallen
Speckles of sky in the shape of pane


Lucid streams