Brightness
Brightness falls from the air
Brightness falls from the hair
The bright stick trapped
in the canal-bank reeds
The bright wind
boisterous in the bright air
Gile na gile
brightness of brightness
in a country's gloom
And Honor Bright
And San Juan's brightness
in his dark night
Brightness more than sunlight
more than moonlight on water
Brightness beyond starlight
beyond flash of bright eye
It may be no more
than the flickering
of a solitary candle
Nimbus Halo Aura Karma
Eyes need never open
not even the curtain of eyelashes
Light floods the mind
Córdoba, 2-7-95
© Michael Smith