| Chris Vitiello |
| from "Countlessness" |
| Before evening twilight, adjacent to and straddling into this twilight, a twilight approachment, a during until the beginning of twilight Is a daily unique light layer or slab in of the sky brighter than the light on about the ground Under-tree shadows’ darkness incongruent with the sky’s light parts above and along the horizon Sun rays and the ground horizontal make an acute angle approaching parallel, unfixing the implied vertex Sky’s light has a tone Ground-light lacks tone, just shadow So, on the rise along the Durham Freeway where it comes into downtown from the southeast so much of the sky is visible and the horizon Unkindness of parataxis The way I drive home, looping from above down onto the freeway rise, at this time of year in just this light window open before evening twilight Low cumulus clouds, their convolutions precise backlit edge Cloud is not a verb right now here The clouds allow the sky Could write that many times with different verbs in there but that would disallow “The clouds allow the sky” This is work As if my eyesight is improved in this during A poem made of poems The range of sunlight angles tightens more verge vanish Last details before night details which are more of desire and imaginary vacillating toward simultaneity and not equivalence Just shadow with entendre of judgment An example: Distinctly able to see the bolt heads along the joints of a water tower, the hexagonal bolt head as a separate from the circular flange below it You never say: That thing has n characteristics Twilight itself is a during, this duration of tight light is a concatenated sub-during Differently clear than in broad daylight The clear differences are because of Sun light is passing directionally through it then fewer angles range The obdurate exit of day Day’s obdurate exit The adjacent b and d in sub-during plus the initial letters in broad and daylight made me think of the word obdurate so I saw one way of using it, this way, but the lyricism of its line disgusts me All durations are linear Though it is more the personification in the expression “exit of day” that’s disgusting The core of the Sun is 27million degrees Fahrenheit Above ability relative conception Light pressure like air pressure Do you know what that tool is for This is winter light We are 6 weeks from our perihelion This is a permanent sentence (Do not destroy this sentence) The visible difference between bolt head and circular flange is the curvature of the Earth Their separation is conveyed by and conveys shadow Flying over flooded agricultural rectangles in Thailand, the sunlight reflection in the water patches moving analogously to my eyes pair in the airplane window, I related to the surface of Earth in the same way that the Sun does Nothing inanimate can be obdurate Causality is not being The middle strand of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is the point at which I was most aware of my location on the surface of a spherical astronomical body My eyes are set in my head Twilight happens both just after sunset and just before sunrise Hours out over the Pacific Ocean, around the International Date Line, I thought “I am a spaceman” Light gets between us Disappear the atmosphere, without that rhyme That water tower, let me be able to be meaning all this with just the two words “water tower,” makes a good example because it has large smooth geometrical shapes, a spheroid with a sub-equatorial ridge seam, atop a perpendicular hexagonal geodesic lattice around a thick cylindrical central post that flares just above the ground I see the tower’s shape because of the light and I see the light because of the shape of the tower 35° 58' 58.96" N, 78° 53' 18.08" W A projection of brightness parallel to the ground so that the ground is not itself illumined so much as its protrusions are in a relative chiaroscuro The tower’s shape is not because of the light Prompt for ask why Looking with a hunger because night is imminent and that hunger will be unfulfilled or differently fulfilled Civil twilight is the center of the Sun is 6 degrees below the horizon Nautical twilight is the center of the Sun is 12 degrees below the horizon Astronomical twilight is the center of the Sun is 18 degrees below the horizon Atemporal durations The photograph has a white hexagon of sun on-in it I go non-specifically there and stay then-specifically there Again: The rise along the Durham Freeway where it comes into downtown from the southeast so much of the sky is visible and the horizon A third of a mile south of the 36th parallel A third of a mile north of the 36th parallel, Vicki and Iris sleep Verge of crepuscular commute The word “horizon” could be always capitalized like “Sun” The surface of the Sun that we see is a gaseous layer 100 kilometers thick of roiling solar granules that each last for 10 minutes to a day before adjacent and underneath granules buffet and burst them The sound of a bursting solar granule is what we would call the sound of the Sun Not true When shadow hits my side of the building the heating system quickly turns on Can description be absent metaphor Can cosmography be absent description From the top of this parking deck see the layer of daily construction exhaust that has accumulated to the south That is not meant as an example of an answer to the earlier question about description Last night’s rain, cold and unromaticizable I’ll take my shortcomings in stating this so That is not meant as an example of an answer to the earlier question about description We have “zenith” and “nadir” because there was a need for a beyond-relative scale of “up” and “down” Twilight really is a layer of light in the sky as it is atmospherically reflected post-sunset and pre-sunrise sunlight I followed my plane’s shadow for miles I don’t know the kind of tree in the median between the sidewalk and street, between our front windows and the streetlamp, and when this tree is wet at night its network of thin vertical branches catches the expanding hemisphere of light that the streetlamp emits constantly, a peach light, and the wet tree glistens are cumulatively seen as conical bright web tunnel that shifts its axis with one’s vantage The cone is seen but is not there The
cone is seen and is not there |