Rain Affects Incident Light

in light that streams paradisical

through trees rustling in old movies, films-

there must be so many

soughing angels

or why does the light caught forever

in these branches-

even in black and white-

reel in my heart

with holy shadows cast

in strange familiar distances

I seem to know.

cinema. cinematique

quarto shadowed suddenly

to me it seems your

dreams are woven in dreams are

woven but the golden loop

slips from your hands and

childhood hoops spin backwards into night.

say you're sorry to the brothers Lumiere

if not to God my pearly fountainhead

it's Yours.

but the guardians of these images sleep.

the moon drops from its murky frame.

expatriate angels

sought no more

sit in the pouring rain and cry-

mary angela douglas 17 june 2010

[*incident light is a film term refering to light that shines directly on objects rather than

reflected light. I am trying to say - in the arts - if you lose the light that comes from God you lose everything, because only with that is an extra dimension woven into what you do that you could never produce on your own]

*brother Lumiere, very poetic film pioneers in France experimenting in color in the early 1900s.