Harry Chapin with Guitar in Concert, by Cindy Funk on Flickr, CC by 2 Generic

Eclipse

by David Baron July 1981

for Harry Chapin

Shadow of mundanity
overtakes the light and leaves
a poem or poet less

despite our calculations
stalking dark are run amok
skies are over-scarred with cloud
and a voice astride the air
flees their silent landfall

another learns of angels
spread the wings of space

another turns and turns aside
his tear encratered face