DDCPoetry

  When I first read the title "Night Vision" I imagined what I would be able to see at night -- like a movie version of what night version could be.  Seeing in the dark.  However, the poem reiterates what happens when you see in the dark, you see the dark. "Shadows are ideas of / casts them;" The initial two lines create the conceit of the poem of examining the "shadows."  Of course "shadow" has a Jungian allusion, but I feel the poem adds more to this by not addressing the allusion, but what defines the shadow "ideas of what casts them."  The semi-colon at the end shows that the next line is comparable. "the moon is there to / match but only / on one side." The poem plays with the idea of such a huge image, the moon, being in play, but isn't because the image turns to the dark side of the moon -- again the absence of light.  What was there: ideas and the moon, are tuned deeper in a dark blank side. Again the poem then add...