Lumen Naturale

1.
Descartes's blind man trips along
the pages of the Dioptrics
wanders on stage a ways
by way of the exalted
subject light and godly
to illustrate a style of walking but portends
he stumbles across a page and
is gone

2.  
when suddenly turns
to anecdote when world
begins with crossroad and 
trees deepen with citation
of innocuous example
to out-flank a literal-
mindedness
as walk does
but invitation is gambit

3. 
that sight is of God
proclaims knowledge
spiritual perfection with visual clarity
as birds pass to invisible
birds with olive and Arrarrat
sleek rigorous
eye for an eye is measure
and salvific
angelic vision arrogation of knowledge

4.
Let it be assumed:

        that the rectilinear rays proceeding
                from the eye diverge
                        indefinitely

        as birds in flight deepen
        elude of horizon

                that the figure contained by
                a set of visual rays
                entire

                                5.633  ....And nothing in the
                                visual field allows you to infer
                                that it is seen by an eye

flight from time into an unimpeded
body becomes drawn space
or orthogonal and horizon
        (ornithonal)
geometric comes never to cease


5.
and establish a new circuit
around the sun

and passed through Alhazen and
Al-kindi to Keplar

empties the eye and leaves
it dutiful

intellectual sun
intelligible light

unless eclipsed occluded or otherwise
removed

the enduring eye as transfer station
of the heavens and heavenly

as light is the text of God


6.
ocular                  offered, a precise (=geometric) model
                        by which God diffused his grace across
                        the world

oracular                Light, the primal divine work, connects
                        the unmanifest and the manifest

Occamulae               where no light is he rumages

occlude         sight and signifier are forever bound
                        by the signature
                        of light


7.
in the deadpan of the Dioptrics
the eye's boundless ambition banished

revolt of focus
even signal success in the eye

of tradition dislocates
the return to the body is temporal
which means tempoed

sight takes place when light passes through a small aperture
close eyelid over pupil, and sight comes to an end

moment-by-moment
constructs

8.
he stumbles across a page
he makes profound use of his hands

modelled by light and ease he makes portraiture

Pensive now.  By the window.  Eyes lower.

the world green like an apple
the theory of the perspectival:  [Theology]
the animal in his lap
knowing there's a window and outside, birds

        the precision:          advent of sur-face
                                literally "on the face"

                                to put it on the table
                                to make it any less hidden

all presence is condition

limitless       during the white
morning he is not mine
sighted         difficult ceaseless

precision
means surface
so it is precise