More Light by Gerry Hill If light + a building = shadow then shadow - a building = light, (although nothing equals light) figures a guy whose job it is to stand by the gate which is to be closed at all times and open it admitting light with the John Deere 690s, the stones they track and the shadows stuck like vines, high noon. His own shadow paces, leans, examines his left hand, light compressing to flowers, hardhats, safety fencing. He rolls up his sleeves, lights a smoke, waits for time to go away, wonders if what is real can't be imagined. Light + a dream = recognition. In light + memory he's naked except for his shadows, light so seldom leaving shadows alone. Gerry Hill is the poetry editor of Grain.

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