Crescent Tethys beneath Saturn’s rings

  

Chasm

Ithaca Chasma on Saturn’s moon, Tethys, photographed by Cassini. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

Yawning hollow

there to be crossed
or stared into

or both

take your pick

hesitate

legs dangling
on the edge
of the scarps

or descend

on the scars
a moon made
into paths.