(I don't think this is a poem.)
Maybe with more time I will feel the same as I did before I
witnessed a total solar eclipse. But right now I feel different. I feel more
content, more settled, more accepting of the whole. I feel more clear, more
determined, more focused on the forward road.
I don’t feel the need to question why standing beneath the
shadow of the moon, glimpsing the spark of the sun’s surface through a moon
valley, and gazing at the ghostly coronal webs would have this effect. I hope I
never do question this, and just let it change me.
I shouldn’t feel, (being a rational being), that the
call-back I got for that job right before totality was a good omen, or that the
solar-sized pimple that grew on my chin afterwards was caused by eclipse
exposure. But I weave in all the strands of significance I can gather.
Did you stand in the path of totality? And are you reckoning
with how it made you feel?
How did it make you feel?
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