<link href="../styles/9781439190302.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:e40d180b-cd26-4393-a462-c93dfe02d3ac" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h2 class="h2a"><a id="page_28"/>Revelation?</h2> <p class="image"><img alt="image" src="../images/f028-01.jpg"/></p> <p class="v"><a id="page_29"/>When I awoke this morning</p> <p class="v">The world was radiant with newness.</p> <p class="v">Indoors and outdoors, all had been scrubbed clean.</p> <p class="v">The sky had achieved a blue that seemed beyond blueness.</p> <p class="v">Whites were whiter than white, greens greener than green.</p> <p class="v">And the edges of everything,</p> <p class="v">Windows</p> <p class="v">Walls</p> <p class="v">Tree trunks</p> <p class="v">Blades of grass,</p> <p class="v">Stood apart from the edges of everything else</p> <p class="v">With exquisite clarity.</p> <p class="v1">How can I explain this? Revelation?</p> <p class="v">No—successful cataract operation.</p> </body></html>