Sun-splashy ripples
You can feel the warmth of a summer day with diaphanous wings darting over glittering ripples.
'She heard the rustling...
No summer is long enough
Referring to the Arctic, where the summers are short and the winters long, this rueful statement made me think about...
Sleep and scimitars
What a keen metaphor for the bright light piercing of shut-eye night.
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High-tempered light
Something bright and uplifting about this light, as long as you have protection from its blinding effects. And what a...
Of striking light
A vivid image, of light striking mountains like a hatchet splitting the darkness. From the first volume of an excellent...
Vapour-ringed sun
I recall seeing more vapour-ringed moons than suns, but it may be that I look at the moon more than...
Light-poor desert
Elsewhere I have highlighted Lopez’s use of desert images in an Arctic context. Here it’s used to refer to a...
Light-stream interplay
The dancing dust of a sunbeam also glimmering as a mirror hall for fireflies. What a bright image.
'A...
Dimmit dimmity
An English south-west dialect word for dusk or twilight, hinted at in the opening 'dim...'.
'At dimmity it flew down...
The secret cupboard of the mountain sun
Wishing you a climate where the light trades in the gold currency of cognac. Not the first mention I have...
Cloud-born apotheoses
The triologism caught my eye, but I like even more the play of light bouncing from a Venetian canal up...
Of fire and fizzle
This Hungarian historical novel spans the 19th century including the European mid-century revolutions which pretty much burned out, as summed...
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