The sea was an absolute sparkling gray this afternoon. Clear sky with softened wind, we predicted there would be a fine viewing of the solar eclipse. Some friends went down to the Ocean Beach. I looked out the windows of my father’s house at 6:30. The sun was still strong and high and I didn’t have any protective eye-ware.
Squeezing my eyes to a slit I took quick glances at the sun and instead saw something black half-covering a circle right next to it. Was it the moon? The two heavenly spheres seemed to be side by side but I couldn’t be sure.
I could say I saw the eclipse, even if I was just imagining it.
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I watched it from the Park, along Kennedy drive, where I knew there’d be sprinkles of sunlight through the sieve of the trees. Each spot of light upoon the asphalt was transformed into a shimmering sickle, a cee. Even the shadows of the leaves were turned into scythes.