when the sun don’t shine

perspective deepened for many people

during the moon’s journey

between earth and sun

daytime darkness obliged us to think

above the busy-ness of our lives

to our relationship with the planet-

and star-sized scales of our solar system

and perhaps beyond to our Sol’s

place in our galaxy and universe

such perspective is not humiliating

but properly humbling, giving rise

to thoughts of what matters enough

to consider important

in our brief lives

thread

there is a whole, a vastness

that encompasses what we can know

only in part as it exists on a scale

beyond out comprehension

a pattern, a tessellation, a tapestry

that we—weak, small, limited, mortal

as we are—yet remain a part of

a segment of a thread

that contributes to the design

and the entirety