Did You See the Crescent Moon?

Did you see the crescent moon tonite, its razor-thin sickle hanging over the glow of the just-set sun?

Coming around the turn, I looked up and saw backpacks and bottles set down by the track team assembled at the far end of the straightaway talking and stretching. Beyond them, I saw coaches and kids doing calisthenics and soccer drills. Beyond them, I saw younger siblings climbing and playing on a jungle gym, under the gaze of a watchful parent or two. And beyond them, I saw the open field, and the silhouette of trees on the horizon, and the fading glow of sunset.

And finally, hanging above those backpacks and bottles and soccer balls rolling in the field, I saw that crescent moon, barely bright enough to show up against the gray-blue early evening sky.

Now it is dark outside, and the sky is black. But somewhere over the Pacific, somewhere between here and tomorrow, a razor-thin crescent hangs in the sky.

Did you see it when it was here?

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