Umbra Penumbra

figurines of ghosts, naevus on swollen

areolae; two black suns;

two narrow-eyed visages

--selfsame on two hardened frames;

a dulled glisten


sometimes we are peerless before the glass

shimmer in murky opal


sometimes we erase landscapes from our eyes,

are thus enlightened



before blackened carcasses of trees

--or the deep sea held against

a skeletal reef--


sometimes things seem very dark*



*title of Mark Lamoureux chapbook. Dusie, 2007