Monday, August 10, 2009

Monday, August 10, 2009: Quoted from: The longest solar eclipse of the century - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The longest solar eclipse of the century
Transformed sun into crescent, then thin ring

The black disc of the moon blotted the light
A dilated pupil, a black hole

For six minutes and thirty-nine seconds
Some people watched with the help of a lens

The rest of us saw only through replicated images
Photographs of the eclipse and eclipse-watchers

With flat, black filters like 3D glasses
Shielding their eyes, mouths agape and full of shadow

2 comments

  1. "mouths agape and full of shadow" -- love! I am a sucker for space poem in general... keep 'em coming. :)

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  2. mmmm, this one was yum.
    "The black disc of the moon blotted the light" was just gorgeous, crazily love the word 'blotted'...

    thea.
    xx

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