Social Isolation: Day 43
I should have been in school today, and most of the last 49 days, looking into hundreds of pairs of eyes waiting for the unexpected. Today was full of eyes, though: videos of bright stars circling the drain of a black hole, sparking, winking out before they reached the center, Navy pilots laughing, like the kids they used to be, to see a fleet of UFOs dip and dive, come in close to look at them, and, in the woods behind the senior center, so many trees knocked over or cut down, but every stump a stage for tiny scenes someone has set up with their toys. Cosmos to atmosphere to a small wood called Walden, to my own backyard where kits jump and tussle while their mother glares at me. We don’t know anything anymore, teach anything, learn anything except to pay attention to the day, not to understand its unexpectedness, but just to circle, spark, to look and look and let the day know that it’s seen. S, Robbins, April 29, 2020
Sherry Robbins 