Eclipse (July)

At 2:15am July 28^th the garden path is white with full moon. I return to sleep. Sky is satin from light. Sometime I reawaken and it’s there, though my window, SSW over Heidelberg. The moon has dimmed, resembles a discoloured penny, date worn away. I must look to notice it. Everyone’s up at daybreak. Bridie had set her alarm for 5:15am. She’d gone out in her hoodie to draw it in her sketchbook. Coppery, she called the moon. I said: Not very red for a blood moon and behind clouds, mostly. She replied: Perhaps it was bloodiest behind the clouds.