The Eclipse

The Eclipse

The moon passed before the sun August 21, 2017.

Bogey, my faithful canine companion, and I were

    part of the Carol Woods Retirement Community

    gathered to watch with special spectacles and

    homemade apparatus and to be photographed under

    the tall pines.

Beyond the pond where the blue heron fishes,

    hot and sweaty, tired of standing, Bogey and I came

    back to the space we call “home” to await the rest of

    the movement of the moon across the sun.

As I sat facing the window and glass door with a

    sandwich, birds flew across my view and as

    though an unseen presence were there, for a

    brief moment movement in the fuchsia ever

    blooming azalea outside the door.

Then beyond the thick stand of tall pine trunks,

    bushes on the far side fluttered, rustled it seemed

    by an unseen hand and for me, as I sat watching

    it was a sacred moment of silent awe.

 Written by Carol Woods Resident Sybil S.