\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
    November     ►
SMTWTFS
     
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Archive RSS
SPONSORED LINKS
Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1068535-overshadowed
Image Protector
by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#1068535 added April 11, 2024 at 5:01pm
Restrictions: None
overshadowed
pictures don't do it justice,
say my sister and nephew
as they try to describe totality,

it's a perfect circle of black
surrounded by rays like
a child's drawing—it's like a black
hole, he says—the sky gets dark,
deepest blue, around the corona
and we saw Venus,
but the horizon is like a sunset—

full of fiery color? I ask,
but she just shakes her head.
—the best four minutes and two seconds
of my life, he says, and repeats it
with a child's certainty—I
don't have words, she says,

as I find this poem
through the shadowed wonder
in their eyes.

April 11—Eclipse/d

© Copyright 2024 Rhyssa (UN: sadilou at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Rhyssa has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1068535-overshadowed