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Time Keeping

Cara Losier Chanoine

When we eclipsed the sun
for the final time of the millennium,
I was weeks away from my sixteenth birthday.

The August heat that year
was quiet and full.
Each night, I would return home
from my summer job,
the day’s sweat dried
to a faint, granular crust
on my skin.

I don’t remember the eclipse.
On the cusp of sixteen,
the magnitude of my aspirations
threatened to split my skin.
I spent much of my time
willing myself to remain whole.
To say I was preoccupied
would be an understatement.

I don’t remember the eclipse,
but I do remember the electricity,
the building tension
of existence drawing breath
to sing out the century.

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