Orbital

Some nights, trying to fall asleep but not succeeding. Then he might ask
what she wants to talk about—nothing too grim or terrible, nothing
too ordinary. News of the longest lunar eclipse in two weeks, the shadow
the earth makes as it passes between the sun and moon. How it happens 
only when the moon is full. How its cache of sunlight filtered through earth's 
atmosphere gives it an orange hue, which may be visible from some 
peak in the Himalayas as well as a beach in Pagudpud, near dawn 
before the fishermen push out to sea with their nets.  Should a shadow
pass underneath their boats, they know to quiet their hands. A bird
might flick through the sky, appear to bisect it; yet nothing falls apart. 
What is the angle formed between the axis of direction from
an orbiting body, and the goal toward which it orients?

Finally, the river's mouth yields to
the dream, the body's inclination 
being toward a place of rest.