total eclipse

 

I'm very pleased to get this haiku out into the world! Thank you to Randy and Shirley Brooks for including it in the summer issue of Mayfly! 

total eclipse 

shining around me 

these upturned faces

We're not that far from eclipse totality, but the skies were supposed to be cloudy and not knowing what the traffic would be like or what my energy would be like, we didn't make any plans. But on April 8 I was feeling okay and the skies were clear, at least for the time being, so we just got in the car and drove to our favorite little restaurant in Baltic for lunch and then meandered through Amish country to a town called Wooster that's about an hour away. We thought we might go to the library but we saw people gathering on the street corners in town where they have little "parklets" and there were empty chairs, so we just parked our car and shared a table with "Ed and Pat from Strasburg." LoL. It was fun. The kind of shared experience where strangers become friends. I've included pictures of the courthouse before and during. The darkness was crazy! The sight of the diamond ring portion of the eclipse was absolutely amazing and sent up cheers from the crowd. Afterwards we all lingered for a bit, not wanting it to end. It was a beautiful day to be out and about in this wonderful world with my fellow humans, especially my darling person.