What Is Light?

This is my continued exploration of the senses. Enjoy.

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What Is Light?

Behind the eyelids I see things:
a fluorescent flicker; two tiny dancers;
hazy tracers; an aurora borealis.
In the moments before sleep,
my eyes hunt and gather
the last photon trickle of night,
bend it into quantum illusions
of beauty without meaning.
I’ve known these lights since
I was a child, and once
they spoke these words: Pure dark
is the true illusion, at least
for those who have eyes to see
or to c...