“Eclipse”

Excerpt from “Osi and Osi: A Tale of Twin Flames”: “She walked for a while, unable to take her eyes off the spectacle unfolding in the sky. It had been explained to her that this orange color came during the umbral phase of the eclipse, when the darkest shadow of the earth was beginning to encroach upon the moon disk. As she observed the satellite, a tiny black crescent had already begun to darken its uppermost edge. She could clearly make out the straight line of planets extending out like a tenuous handle for the immense copper skillet of the moon. Something now told her to go back to the car, so she did so, starting up the bug and steering it onto the roadway. The light from the moon transformed the world. Not dark enough to be nighttime, not light enough to be daytime, the terrestrial atmosphere seemed otherworldly. The dark ocean had turned turquoise under the influence of the moon. The sky looked confused, as though it were expecting sunrise so late in the night. Dark rock giants gleamed silvery-gray, looking like chunks of the moon fallen to earth. The giant trees populating the mountainsides were clearly picked out by the light, but their muted clarity appeared to be the result of some primitive attempt at photography.”