III.    Far Side of the Moon

                    with line from Ad Astra screenplay by James Gray & Ethan Gross




the moon battles will be fought and won in silences greater than the oceans;

maybe somewhere out there in beyond galaxies the calamity will land, 
our greatest destructions, our chaoses and losses—the agonies recorded for

grandmothers of ancient nebulae to host our suffering of expansion, 
while we hoist spacecraft generic boxes titled “weapons” and spring new

tech at our old foes, across the Veda; Sea of Moscoviensis, recording
ourselves, new playbacks, radio waves we have heard before, names we

have uttered before: 
the Lunokhods brandish a weapon
called a STILETTO sex appeal we have felt before, these moon suits

come with mirrored lenses, we want you to see the black expanse 
behind you as we charge with electromagnetics and light