She said the ball of light entered her room and saved her life. She held it in her palm & let it dance. I said, when I was twelve, I captured fireflies in a jar only for the moment when their lights exhausted. Evelyn Lau said, when light shattered across the floor, & briefly, there was a thunder between us. By us, she meant me & my brother. When she said, hands stood shaped like shelters, I wanted it to be my own failures she described. Morrissey said there is a light that never goes out. John said an incoherent buzz, the flickering light in his bathroom, stopped him from pulling the trigger. I said, the light was a jellyfish with teeth, light was the gold piss after the sting. When the lord said, let there be light, it was hilarity in bright pause.