Put August 12 in your phone now. Genuinely.
Before sunrise, six planets spread across the sky. Afternoon, the eclipse. After dark, the Perseids Meteor shower.
Four events on one day, NASA says, and the new moon that same date keeps the sky dark enough to actually see the meteors.
You don't need a telescope for most of it. A field, a coat, and twenty minutes for your eyes to adjust.
There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away
There follows a wagon behind him that's loaded with clay
the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay
night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day
long live the dead