Eclipse (Weber)

the mating of light and dark is needed…

I met Robert Weber a few years ago. It was in a poetry class I was teaching. As it came to be, he ended up teaching me a few things about the process of writing poetry. As a well-educated person, Bob has written books with esoteric titles like, “The Created Self.” But don’t let the seriousness of that title deflect your reading of this poem, which is a great example of his sharp, wry wit. As…