The eclipse that wasn’t?

I waitedin the balconyway past midnightto see the eartheat into the moon.It was an hour past the startof the eclipseand yet the moonfloated unchiseled,wholesome and round,defying the Earth's shadowlike some people defy reason,according to me.Except in this case,I'd got it wrong.It was a penumbral lunar eclipse,which meant, as Google told me,that the moon would not …