Transit

About perihelia— 
                 Or rather,  about a full, dark shadow 
and its partial, outer one. How passage means 

                              we row until encounter with an occluding 
body. Hem of the chromosphere: 
                 where shafts of light ripple through deep valleys.

Every event lasts but a fraction 
                               of a second, before resulting in change.
Not even totality is the equivalent of a final

                  imaginable. Think of a curtain, 
a garment; inside, underneath, think of 
                              the skin still faintly breathing.