The Dimmer
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 07:12AM
BVD in Prose, William Van Doren, light

If the morning light is dim enough, everything in the room seems to emerge on its own. White dog, red sofa, brown wicker chair, glow, with no outlines. Green world out the far window, usually much brighter, has never seemed so endlessly green. The less I can see of my hands and the page, the more I write. Light recedes, reality advances.

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