to see
a light where there is none
blessed
to observe as well
an absence of
in abundance
knowing
darkness is not light as
light is not darkness
yet
without one
the other cannot be
in a room without windows
light enters only
through wired bulbs or flickering wicks
illumination by source unless
obstruction met by way of
pianolas and piles of discarded soda cans
long lines cast
perspective flawed
perhaps as
the shadows were
first and
always
seen only now by way of
contrast
until
source and
obstruction
removed
Objects, and the Distance Between Them 