The light of the moon
The light of the moon is a quiet reflection, large, even, and mild. The light of the moon comes from far away. The makes it quiet. I imagine the shadows that things cast on the earth in the light of the moon imperceptibly seeking separation. Though I can’t tell with my bare eyes. I’m too small or close to make out the cosmic angle between the source of light and the things it illuminates on earth.
When I start studying light and shadow , the light and shadow of the moon, the light and shadow of the sun , the light and the shadow produced by the lamp in my living room, I acquire a sense of scale and dimension. I have always wanted to write a book about light. I can think of nothing that reminds me more of eternity , says Andrzej Stasiuk in his book The World behind Dukla. Events or objects stop or disappear or collapse under their own weight and when I look at them and describe them, he say, it is only because they refract light, because they shape it and give it a form that we are capable of understanding.