Light in Flight

 

Transmitted light:

 

 

He talked on,

raising and lowering his glass

to admire the light  through it ..

 

-- James Gould Cozzens,  Ask Me Tomorrow (1940), ch.5

 

 

light   

sliced

 

through thinning trees.

 

--- Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (2001)

 

 

The sun was beaming  through the window

in   bright  squares

 

-- Zona Gale, “Bill’s Little Girl”

 

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Probing light:

 

The sun was pouring in,

creeping   in stealthily-lengthening squares

across his desk.

 

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The I.O.U.” (1920)

 

 

The cell door opened and

blinding bars of light

burst in …

 

-- David McCloskey, Damascus Station (2021)

 

 

Now and then     a searchlight

fingered the bellies of the clouds

 

-- James Jones, From Here to Eternity (1951)