Chiaroscuro (Light-Dark) #2

First photo of Earth from the Moon, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23, 1966. Credit: NASA.

Proposing
to the attention
of every one

a nuanced
crater

and a long corridor
of dust and rock

leading
inevitably
to a night sky

somewhere else

and blackness
with a soft touch
smudging away
clouds.

• astropoetry
• chiaroscuro
• Lunar Orbiter
• moon
• poetry