A Festival Of Crescents Poem by Eric Paul Shaffer

A Festival Of Crescents

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On the day of the eclipse, he was well on his way when the sky darkened.
The first shadow was like a cloud across the sun, but the darkness grew.
He would never reach home in time to cast the dwindling image on a sheet

of paper, not with pin and glass still on the kitchen table. Darkness swelled.
The birds grew quiet. A chill breeze carried the wail of a distant siren, eerie

in noon twilight. Newscasters warned never to stare at the sun. Even a peek

at the shadow devouring light might blind, but he wanted to see darkness
make a moon of the sun. He walked beneath an oak, staring at the sidewalk,

and there, a festival of crescents flickered at his feet. Thousands of glittering
images of the sun refracted through living leaves, and his was a path through
the shifting shape of light as darkness plunges through the heart and emerges.

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