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Green Flash

by Susan Cowger 4 Comments

I’ve never seen the green flash. It’s a sunset phenomenon wherein just after the sun slips below the horizon there is a flash of brilliant green. 
And I must tell you that if someone said they had seen it, well, it would be suspect. It is just a flash afterall. Anyone could say they saw it and the world would be no different. 
But still I wonder: is this instantaneous burst of color real–or is it just wishful thinking? 
I tend to believe slow things. Rocks flattened by glaciers and Saviors that take three days to rise. 
And yet there I am at sunset and staring through slow minutes…hoping.  
Crane: midstream stock still
Scanning eons urgent surge
Green flash flips a tail
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April 6, 2010 Blog

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  1. Susan Cowger says

    April 6, 2010 at 7:08 pm

    A fist! Yes, just the right kind of power.

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  2. Tattoo Girl says

    April 6, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Moon Poem 5

    56%

    Hovering grey brume
    Through clouds Sun unfolds Her fist.
    An efflorescence.

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  3. Anonymous says

    April 6, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    wonnerful.
    slow allows time to calculate the risks. waiting allows energy to be stored (that's how I roll..haha).
    But there is something to be said for witnessing the exact moment when two or more things interact in a flash. What would have been like to witness the exact moment when a severed ear was supernaturally reattached? What if you blinked or coughed and missed it?
    Maybe we just need to see slowly…

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  4. Craig and Bethany says

    April 6, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    LOVE it.

    Slow things give us a chance to get used to an idea. They let us try it out, see how it will affect us, the slow conversion, the gentle steps off the beaten path.

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