Some nights, trying to fall asleep but not succeeding. Then he might ask what she wants to talk about—nothing too grim or terrible, nothing too ordinary. News of the longest lunar eclipse in two weeks, the shadow the earth makes as it passes between the sun and moon. How it happens  only when the moon is full. How its cache of sunlight filtered through earth's  atmosphere gives it an orange hue, which may be visible from some  peak in the Himalayas as well as a beach in Pagudpud, near dawn  before the fishermen push out to sea with their nets.  Should a shadow pass underneath their boats, they know to quiet their hands. A bird might flick through the sky, appear to bisect it; yet nothing falls apart.  What is the angle formed between the axis of direction from an orbiting body, and the goal toward which it orients?  Finally, the river's mouth yields to the dream, the body's inclination  being toward a place of rest.