Eclipse

What god or scientific forcewould put the Sun and Moon on courseto grant us an eclipse?What scale of relativitywould make their size appear to bea truly perfect fit? On other days, they square with Mars,or some assembly of starsin geometric rhyme.The triangle protracts through spacethen flattens, and, with winking face,to us they just aligned. A […]

An eclipse poem

On the eve of the eclipse, she slept with her head downhill, and woke to the sound of woodpeckers chiseling their faces into the forest, and, when she rose to look for them, she found, instead, a green plump grasshopper, which she showed to another camper, through the thin screen of his tent, with a […]