more black than black

Between the pick-up spot and the parking spot, the sun abandoned everything for one more day, the sea blackened, and the islands blackened even darker, more black than black, and the sky looked shocked and empty, as if not fully trusting that the moon would rise soon and her cohorts of stars crowd in like figures at a hajj.

— Sebastian Barry, Old God’s Time (Viking, March 21, 2023)


DK Photo: Moon. 12:01 am. 79° F, feels like 84° F. Saturday, July 29, 2023. Darien, CT.