“Eclipse” – Excerpt from “The Starling’s Song”

ECLIPSE

You awakened me

long after midnight

to watch the moon.

Our heads rolled back,

feeling so insignificant

beneath the canvas of stars,

infinite cosmos.

We name the patterns together.

The world seemed to still

as the moon came into

and then back out of shadow.

The amber orb fell away from me.

I crawled back into my bed,

thinking just yesterday

there was a monarch

in the fountain.

So easily I am

punished by time.

 

c. B. L. Bruce, The Starling’s Song