“I’ve seen a total eclipse before,” Silky says.

     Having received our glasses to view the upcoming solar phenomena, Bobo, Harley, Peter Pan, Silky and me, walked to the top of High Hill, to see what the World and bumblebees would look like through them. There we sat. In a line. Silky on one end, I on the other, and the boys in between. 
     “It was positively wonderful,” Silky went on to say about the eclipse that she alleged to have seen. 
     The four of us boys turned to Silky in unison; brows raised high above are darkened glasses. 
     Silky was looking straight upward at what appeared to be a buzzard circling in the cloudless sky. 
     “Silky,” I said. “You aren’t even old enough to have seen snow." 
     Silky’s head snapped around so quickly her Eclipse glasses came loose from one perked ear and were left dangling from the other. The boys flinched. 
      “Snow?” Silky asked. “What’s Snow?”
      Bobo, Harley and Peter Pan turned from Silky to me. 
     I, of course, rubbed my chin. 
     “Snow,” I said, as if it were common knowledge, “is ice cream that falls from the sky.” 
     Oh how Silky’s eyes widened. Her glasses dropped to the grass, unnoticed, and I went on. 
     “It falls and falls and falls, until, on perfect days, the whole wide world is covered in great, white, pillowy heaps of it, deeper, even, than Bobo is tall.” 
      Not even a gasp of astonishment came from Silky’s wide open mouth, so dumbfounded was she by the thought of what I had just described. 
       The boys turned their gaze silently back to the sky, possibly to search for the lone buzzard, or possibly to enjoy the quiet for the moment it might last, or perhaps to stand, in their own minds, knee-deep in ice cream, a thought that could never, ever, be eclipsed.