Wanting Light, by Pamela Joyce Shapiro

Black Columns in a Landscape, by Paul Klee (Germany, b. Switzerland). 1919.

Wanting Light
 
To see the world in that specific green--
a slim ribbon of lemon river beneath
the landscape dancing against an aqua
violet sky, the cypress a feathered fan,
the scene a spectrum of fractured light
through a veiled prism of pastel vision,
each form a whisper of quintessential
joy, delicately defined by gestured
line, anchored by ionic pillars in time.
 
To see the world in that specific green--
to leave dusk and mire behind sail
and spire, to find delight in being,
to know kindness and understand
its light—to see.

Pamela Joyce Shapiro

Pamela Joyce Shapiro is a cognitive psychologist intrigued by memory and language.  She teaches psychology in Philadelphia and writes poetry to capture thoughts and moments otherwise forgotten.  Once upon  a time, she studied drawing and printmaking at the Philadelphia College of Art and Tyler School of Art. Her poetry has recently appeared in Poetry Breakfast and Better Than Starbucks.