He Needs Dark to See

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Light bored into his eyes but where did it go? Into a sea of phosphenes, along the wet fuse of some dead nerve, it hid everywhere and couldn't be found. I've used up three guesses, all of them right. It's like scuba diving, going down into the black cone-tip that dives farther than I can, though I dive closer all the time. - "Eyes" by William Matthews