Let There Be Light

From the floor, at dawn,
as crows congregate on
power lines, all looking in
past my never curtained
windows, I was perusing
the paper lamp shade on
my ceiling aided by gratis
illumination from the street.

Round, with metal meridians
and at its core, suspended,
resembling what I perceived
as a restrained pendulum of
time, was a 60w Solas® bulb.

An extended chord, a bootlace
attached to the adaptor switch
touched the carpet for easy access,
when It was my turn to play God.


27th Dec 2021.  Finn. 09:11 Am.









Ps. For non natives.

Solas is the Irish word for light
And also a bulb brand name.

I’m way past my breakfast, but if
hunger stopped us from writing
Irish literature would have ceased
to exist after 1847.