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4. LUNAR ECLIPSE
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9 4. LUNAR ECLIPSE You’ve seen only a planed circle of moon, the white wafer; the low sky’s flat penny grow into that dime, flipped in the turn taken by the earth, until you see what’s won from behind its veil of brightness by the lunar eclipse a red marble, a pinball of blood and it’s your shot, a ball of red clay before its pinch into a bowl, what I want to say and its look that far away from it. I want to say it suddenly turns three dimensional with shadow shaded in at the drawn earth-curtain’s darkening; and that darkness makes shape-informed light clearer rounding out 10 midnight, and moon, once it is that lighted ball, falls above a night now floored with depth so dark above you you can feel the feet and meter fill with time. New Years confetti each speck’s fall a galaxy ago back into space. Space back into space restored beneath the moon to here in the shading of eclipse. The distances. We have to feel the spatial in what we see to see clearly the eye measure in hands and feet; as when we kiss, distance disappears, our eyes close, and we see bodily in raised detail a measure deepen into our world in each other. And what we are in the shadow the world makes of our love, by this earth shine, we see ourselves whole, see in whole perspective. ...