The eclipse really put a
shutter on things
today, though only 83%
from our location on Ashland Ave.
Didn’t get out of bed til nine o’clock,
a rarity for me,
so when Dave came over at ten o’clock for tunes,
I felt a little out of it—remembered
only parts of some of the songs I started—
including Wall of Death,
John Barleycorn,
and Keep My Skillet Greasy.
But, turned out, Dave knew them already—sweet!
Then we had lunch at Mirror of Korea,
returning just in time to see the crescent sun
though the certified dark glasses Robin gave me—
lucky—a thinning of the clouds
in that very second—
the sun hooking, flashing like an eel
under the gray cloud surface.
Why do people like to see the eclipse?—
To take part in an event that’s free
of their perceptions and consciousness—
already in Babylonian astronomical tables
thousands of yearstoday, though only 83%
from our location on Ashland Ave.
Didn’t get out of bed til nine o’clock,
a rarity for me,
so when Dave came over at ten o’clock for tunes,
I felt a little out of it—remembered
only parts of some of the songs I started—
including Wall of Death,
John Barleycorn,
and Keep My Skillet Greasy.
But, turned out, Dave knew them already—sweet!
Then we had lunch at Mirror of Korea,
returning just in time to see the crescent sun
though the certified dark glasses Robin gave me—
lucky—a thinning of the clouds
in that very second—
the sun hooking, flashing like an eel
under the gray cloud surface.
Why do people like to see the eclipse?—
To take part in an event that’s free
of their perceptions and consciousness—
already in Babylonian astronomical tables
