Out of Luck
Kevin A. Risner
Ohio Writer
Source Material:
I took a snippet of a WKYC news article about the eclipse and where to find "safe" solar glasses: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/world/solar-eclipse/solar-eclipse-glasses-path-of-totality-april-8-nasa-glenn-cleveland-ohio/95-a340226b-a2cb-4bf8-9484-aec41754c930.
Additional Context:
The poem's cynicism fits incredibly with how I feel about actually being able to see the eclipse under clear skies with the 50/50 likelihood it might be overcast. Maybe we'll actually get to see it in the skies -- and not just experience the darkness when it happens. By the time you read this poem, the forecast will be a bit clearer. Or maybe not.
I took a snippet of a WKYC news article about the eclipse and where to find "safe" solar glasses: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/world/solar-eclipse/solar-eclipse-glasses-path-of-totality-april-8-nasa-glenn-cleveland-ohio/95-a340226b-a2cb-4bf8-9484-aec41754c930.
Additional Context:
The poem's cynicism fits incredibly with how I feel about actually being able to see the eclipse under clear skies with the 50/50 likelihood it might be overcast. Maybe we'll actually get to see it in the skies -- and not just experience the darkness when it happens. By the time you read this poem, the forecast will be a bit clearer. Or maybe not.
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Kevin A. Risner (he/him) lives in the Cleveland area and is the author of multiple books, including Do Us a Favor (Variant Literature, 2021), You Thought This Was Just Gonna Be About Cleveland, Didn't You (Ghost City Press, 2022), and There's No Future Where We Don't Have Fire (ELJ Editions, forthcoming in 2025).
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