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
