What is this light that passes through a leaf?
Without my eye eclipsed by the leaf
the light lands where I can see it,
subsumed in other light
(or being more mobile than leaf, perhaps I
am the one with agency to eclipse).
What is this light that passes through leaf?
In the penumbra I can barely see it,
such bright light shuts my pupil:
I shun the glare involuntarily:
it lands in my iris.
What light passes through leaf?
In the umbra I dilate.
I dilate as if on purpose–
purpose–iris–unfallen leaf
From leaf I long to learn
to unimpede,
to look less solid,
as I know I am as much space between atoms
as the space between stars.
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