Radiance
Marie Howe What the Living Do "A Certain Light"
[…]A gaze clinched.
He was all bones and skin, no tissue to absorb the medicine.
He couldn't walk unless two people held him.
[…]
then only in pain again — but wakened.
So wakened that late that night in one of those still blue moments
that were a kind of paradise, he finally opened his eyes wide,
and the room filled with a certain light we thought we'd never see again.
Look at you two, he said. And we did.
And Joe said, Look at you. And John said. How do I look?
And Joe said, Handsome.
And so for day 1923
19.03.2012
