I couldn't help myself!

I wrote an eclipse poem.

On the day of the solar eclipse, I posted on X:

I was kidding about working on an eclipse poem, but I was challenged by a friend, who wrote a brilliant eclipse poem (provoked by my post), to write one.

So, for better or worse, I did.

Photo by Matt Nelson on Unsplash

Path of Totality

A cold gust 
as birds flew in reverse. 

Shadows fell 
into momentary dusk.

This is the gift 
of any apocalypse—

to return to light, 
to the ordinary day.