looking through the pages for some hint of light

an emerald
         sitting on a purple pillow
  (how does the mind enthrone in an ambience?)
                                   a milky cloud above the ancient house
so that the green bauble means
                                           on its elegant purchase
         if it but ride
                             a certain glance

                     the text unread
                                 but for that glance
                           among the paragraphs

                                    when what is there
                   (there in the mind—there in the text)
              unseen, unknown,
                                           beyond phenomena

                                                                   leaps onto the world