Total Super Blood Wolf Lunar eclipse
January 20, 2019
The lingering memory of a January day
the sky blue as a Raven’s wing
Relentless wind, so certain of it’s destination
howling most of the day,
15mph with gusts over 25mph.
A Sunny South day
the color of Union soldiers
who died
because they never expected the South
to be so unforgivingly bitter cold
I rub my hands
Check to see if my camera is comfortable
(Christmas is truly the Season of Tripods as gifts)
Somewhere near the dawn of the Wolf Moon
the restless dragon wind settles down,
but it’s hovering in the upper 20’s
The sky
the night sky I love so much
clear
and crisp
and sharp enough to cut you
The Super Moon closer than ever
huge at the horizon
now several hands above the rim of the World
The grass I mow
Pebble and rock Zen garden darken
Stillness grows
Silence
My lady smiles
radiant
as some darkness takes an ever encroaching bite
Time, unrelenting and unapologetic
advances the dancers
Darkness eats my Lady’s face
but does not consume her fully
Bruising her instead
Reddish-purple trauma
creeping in the wake
of the invisible assailant
I busy my hands to keep them warm
I switch to my other glasses
I try to find the snack I set out
anything to distract me from her trauma
Reddening apparent early
The umbra of the Lady’s assassin
The beautiful edge of the Moon glimmering brightly
contrasting the red as it deepens
In half of my heart
I am back in the cave
Seeing all this as the wrath of Angry Gods
A Punishment deserved by absented kings and mad knights
and I am afraid
Please don’t take her form me
I know she left me to die that time
but I love her still
The indifferent stars smile toothy smiles
all the brighter in her darkening
Totality!
The Darkness of a Super Blood moon
All I can do is wait. . .
My hands are shaking
A the thinnest edge of Hope I’ve ever seen
cuts along the trailing edge of the assassin
She Heals!
All parts of my heart sing
I miss the shot with my camera
by my heart holds that image in my mind
The fever broken
the Lady convalesces in the most pure sky
I have ever known
My hands calm
My eyes make my face cold
Total Super Blood Wolf Lunar eclipse
January 20, 2019