Eclipse (2025)
A surreal image of a partial solar eclipse as seen over the Saint John River in Fredericton NB Canada.
PARTIAL ECLIPSE
A scrap of white through dense
hedges her hair or blouse. Day or night
when you pass the porch, she sits between two pillars
of paperbacks. At her left hand
those unread, at her right the pile mounts
through summer until one slides off
into the brown needles. The glum face
of the cover might mean something
like the birds mean more
than you are sick of them,
how they fly at the slightest noise,
your lover who cannot keep his mind on you.
Who are you fooling with this fiction?
She is you, if anyone, since you made her up
out of this morning
of mere disappointment in him—which means
"no point at all" except in the partial eclipse
that drops hooks and horns from leaf shadows,
the only spectacle you're supposed to look at.
Stay in the deep shade of the porch.
The sun is harmful
because the eye trusts it and opens
and stays open even after the harm is done
- Michelle Boisseau
Eclipse (2025)
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