Cancer Eclipsed
Yes, there is the disease and I’ve heard it said that if one lives long enough they will eventually develop some kind of cancer: breast, prostate or the liver-spots of hand and face turned to skin cancer, the farmers who lose the upper half of their drivers-side ear, or once red-heads, the small-balled tip of their lovely ski-jump noses.
Holes in the Ozone—it seems here on the coast that there might be a tear directly above us. I imagine it there in the sky, a flap of waving, see-through film not detected by the naked eye because of the white-blue fire seeping in, radared rays of sun like the concentrated beam that starts a crustacean’s hard shell aflame when focused through a magnifying glass.
Nearly a full eclipse of the sun just last August and we’d made the cereal box viewers, the neighbors joining us to beam reflections from binoculars onto white sheets. Heather let me know that she was a Cancer, had just had her birthday, and I made a mental note that her and Dan, long-time married since their teen years were a good astrological match, felt the ping-pong of my own heart as the moon shadow cast over the glowing orb made the temperature drop, fast. My missing in action, a cancer too, both of us watery creatures, but he’d been found out, full-mooned, with a sun-ruled Leo, and had since retracted, a nervy crab into his shell.
I enjoyed your freewrite, my friend. There are alway tidbits to take away when I stop by.
Thank you! I'm glad you came by and enjoyed :)
Way to work in both meanings. And you made it seem more effortless than poking a hole in a cereal box.
Awww! Thank you!
You're welcome. And...
I hope you'll give today's prompt a sniff:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-278-5-minute-freewrite-tuesday-prompt-dog-breath
Ooh, love the flow of this one! I love how much of the world gets packed into your freewrites. All the colours.
:) I love compliments coming from you, because you're such a great writer! Thanks, Sue :)
WE are having a theme here of the right or not so right men LOL
Right!? Maybe, I'll compile all. Have a title idea?
In search for Mr. Right.
Trials of a single woman.
Is there anyone out there?
All seemed right - at first. A book with many chapters.
Let me think... maybe something clicks...