The light motif that permeates this collection of poems operates within and between domains. Composed in mid-life, they engage with many of its concerns: work, home, relationships, social conscience and the beliefs and values that inform how we manage these areas of experience. Conceding the imminence of "the usual world," Perception of Light documents "the scheduled/and incidental joys" that contend with anxiety, affirming "what gives meaning in the here, the now," despite its transience.