Sunday, February 05, 2006

Midnight City of Lights


Midnight in the house reveals a hidden city of nocturnal creatures. They are not alive, but lights that glow in the dark. The nightlights are a given, but there seems to be a whole biome of other lights. There are the double greens of the printer and the 2 seductive blue points of the external drive and firebox. The family room has a whole family of points of brightness with the DVD, VSH, and the external lights on the stereo. There is a glowing light from the receiver for the outdoor door camera. The microwave has its own glow from the digital clock. There is a seductive blue light from the studio. I don't know what it is. It's too dark to go in and find out, but it glows like a lighthouse beam making walking through the house at night safe. I think its blue lights are the sexiest. It seems like fireflies have invaded our home and have hidden among our things and are only revealed in the middle of the night. They are silent and steady in there concealment and when the dawn breaks, their light can't complete with the sun and they fade back into the background. Only if you deliberately look can you still see them beaming out their presence during the daytime.

2 comments:

nbk said...

Beautifully written, Iris! It's true. Over the years we've turned our home into a spacecraft control panel. The studio blue is a desk speaker, by the way--a replacement for the Altecs I took out to use their transformer on your system, if you recall. Since you think blue ones are the sexiest...hmm....

R the Great said...

Grandpa will be sporting 'blue lights' on Valentines Day, maybe sooner!