Illumination from the Cuckoo’s Nest

 

 

Except for the white powder of light from the Nurses’ station

 out in the hall,

the dorm is dark.

-- Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

 

 The white tubes in the ceiling

begin to pump  their refrigerated light.

-- ibid

 

There was a cold moon at the window,

pouring light into the dorm

like skim milk.

-- ibid

 

~ ~ ~

 

The wind lay down  and the sun got higher,

chrome-plating the east side  of the deep green swells.

George  aimed the boat  straight out to sea.

-- ibid

 

George told the doctor he’d have to land his fish

or cut it loose,

because there was a bad sky coming down on us.

-- ibid