The Essential Condition of Vision

Evelyn Jean Pine
Poetry in Form
Published in
3 min readAug 23, 2021

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All words in order from the “Definition of Light, Noun” in Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 5th edition, Springfield, MA: G & C Merriam, 1948, p. 579, — shaped into a fractured pantoum, Summer Solstice, June 20, 2020.

An eyeball.
Photo by v2osk on Unsplash

The essential Condition of Vision
The opposite of darkness
An emanation
From a light-giving body

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