Woke today to weather maps that promised: “incomplete obscuration of the sun during totality” which of course is the moon’s job. Half of the weather service seems focused on how to describe statistics so you spend enough time trying to figure out what the percentages are describing and what it means to you, perhaps until you lose interest. The other half are apparently celebrating poetry month with seven syllable phrases like “incomplete obscuration”. Here, it’s going to be too cloudy but have a free haiku line.
On the other side
of these clouds
Where we imagine
Our long gone family,
Our cats and dogs, our beliefs,
Some off-screen
Coincidence of sun and moon
And us plays out unseen
These things, like so much
Of each long life that
nightly fills the darkness
With if onlys
After weeks of watching
The hopeful weather reports
Of course it’s cloudyThis time, memory
Of the last eclipse we saw
Will have to sufficeweathermen forecast
incomplete obscuration
clouding the future
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