Love Transits All

[Angela]

Helios took an old shoe box, and Venus helped him build a pinhole camera with white paper to catch their images, and a pierced film of tin foil as the aperture, and she held the tape, tearing off pieces of just the right size.

The kids across the street were too confused by the couple's behavior to point and laugh as the two of them by turns stuck their heads in the box, waiting for signs of a cosmic event, with cool stars flattened under their feet, like grass at the park.

Their camera’s image was too small; actually seeing Venus’s image crossing him was beginning to seem inconceivable, so Helios fashioned a hasty long tube version of their pinhole camera to give them a larger image, and again Venus held things in the right places and fastened them as he needed.

By then the whole event had reached Australia; Helios was disappointed to not have seen the two of them, privately (with their own homemade camera), but in a grownup manner that is in some way sadder than that of a child’s.  She followed Helios indoors to witness what NASA had to share.

Venus made him a sandwich, and sat on the floor near his feet, reminding him that she will always be closer to him than the Earth could ever be, and that she is in constant transit of him, if viewed from the right perspective. 

[Gita]

This is so creative. Please put a hard copy of this in a time capsule and bury it with instructions to your town council that it be opened in 2117 before the next transit. 

[Stephen Torelli]

And the transit will only reoccur in another 105 years. Commendable!

[Javed Baloch]

Just awesome Angela. And especially loved the closing. Fav' it.

[Kay Sera]

one of my friends just purchased a $2000 telescope and made his own filter, just so he could glimpse the lovely Venus. she is a wonder, don't you think?

[Teresa]

What the others said, and I never thought I'd read a phrase like, "Venus made him a sandwich..."  Only you could have thought of this magic.

[Bill Floyd]

Yet again, you've joined the cosmic with the personal in an inimitable fashion (and added in some mythic spice for flavoring).  Imaginative and generous.  

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

Oh oh oh oh.....this made me weak.  I LOVE this.

[Paul de Denus]

I'm with Ron. on this- it made my day.

[Ron. Lavalette]

I don't usually read something I can't intelligently comment on.  I could probably say something intelligent about this.  I don't want to.  I just want to go back and read it, over and over. Thanks. 

[Naomi Leake]

Sigh, gorgeous.