I sometimes feel like a grumpy old man...

[Darkblue]

Moments before cones stop polarizing color
sofas and CD racks hover lonely atop impotent sunlight. I'm having a hard time grasping this image. Why exactly sofas and CD racks? Based on the rest of the poem, I'm guessing "impotent sunlight" is referring to sunlight being inferior to electric lights, but I'm not certain.
But they're just slow thinkers in this twilight: Who is they? The cones? The sofas and CD racks?
I videoed my flat screen, 7 to 9pm,
and discover it wobbling about, babbling to a vase. I love this image. It was confusing at first, but it made me want to keep coming back to it until I understood (or at least arrived at an answer that was satisfying to me).

Outside, what light that lingers orbits street lamps: Great sound to this line and lovely image.
orbs of unstable fissile material, I would go with either "unstable" or "fissile," but both is too much.
or colonies of impatient fireflies, instantly whizzing away
after I impact glass with my baseball bat. Great imagery throughout this stanza.

I make nervous ellipses about this aging dimension. By "about", do you mean "around"? I think "around" would convey the image better.
One mindless flick will zoom electricity in to kill the twilight:
a late 19th century murderer, flashing like a peacock,
threatening hostages with Maxwell's florescent hammer*. I'm a little lost by the end of this stanza. I looked up the reference (is it from Beatles song, maybe?), but I still don't understand how it fits in or what exactly you're getting at with this stanza.

I lust for the time before Orsted, Looked up this reference too and liked this stanza more with that knowledge. Hans Christian Orsted?
when lives broke sun-up/sun-down,
candles churned out intellectual endeavors,
and society didn't mainline alternating current. All of this is great. I really get a sense of the longing for a different time as illustrated by the influences of different forms of light.



*You get points from me if you know both references... no googling

I get no points because I googled. But only to help me wrap my head around this! I'm still not entirely sure about the Maxwell reference or its purpose, but I think the poem is a lot stronger knowing who Orsted was. I don't know how willing most poetry readers are to look up things they don't understand, but ending the poem with two fairly obscure (or maybe not obscure... what do I know?) references sort of makes the poem lose some momentum there at the end. I may have given up on it had I not really liked it from the start and been curious enough to want to know what I was missing. If you can come up with some kind of subtle way to slip in a quick explanation of what either reference is referring to, it might be more accessible. Or maybe you don't want it to be that easily accessibly, and that's cool too. Just my two bits!