My Yellow Heart

It starts with an email, an invitation: Eclipse and eclipse are parentheses around vivid attention. Treat this time as its own. Note changes. Make lists to catalog, and prevent erasure.1. These lists are containers, sometimes for broken-down things:a. debris, old electronicsb. mollusks (husks)c. cave echoesd. quadrants, to taste2. These lists are feasts, sometimes with others:a. seaweed and white fish, shrimp tempurab. breadc. olive oil from the middle / of the sea and east your apexd. tomatoes flecked with salte. eggplants, in afterthought bites3. These parentheses gather time, gently:a. my midnight: softb. the basket of an afternoon4. This map traces things:a. like roots1. and leaves 2. and rivers3. and 4. death and the moon, in shadow