Is Close Enough Ever Good Enough... A Discussion

[Quixilated]

This is what my brain does when I read those two lines in the poem:
Green light on a forest floor:

Refracted as the deepest sea:

Also, that is what comes up when you google “ocean refraction images,” so I’m not sure I understand exactly why there is a problem with these lines. I read it that the light in the forest looks like light in the sea, all bendy and otherworldly. I rather liked the lines and the scene they evoke.

The initial discussion seems to stem from this comment:

I found a place where I was lost
in green light on a forest floor, - I'm already there. Great opening. 
 
refracted as the deepest sea. - this line is confusing to me. Firstly, what is being "refracted" from the previous lines? And secondly, "refracted as the sea"? The sea isn't refracted. So, something can't be refracted as it. I wonder what you thought this line meant. And I also wonder what other readers think you meant by this line. 
 

To answer your “other readers” question. I thought it was clear that the thing from the previous line that is being refracted is the light in the forest, not the water of the sea.  The second line meant that the way the light in the forest is behaving looks like the way light behaves in the sea.  It was never saying that the sea water is refracted.  Perhaps the line should read “refracted as in the sea” to be clear, but surely that is not enough of an omission to cause this level of confusion.