After the Detonation of the Moon

HATE WINTER? HERE’S A SCIENTIST’S ANSWER:
BLOW UP THE MOON

Headline, The Wall Street Journal
We were overwhelmed, just as they’d intended:
for wasn’t this the greatest show of clout
the world had ever seen, and all without
loss of a single life—an exploit splendid
no less for its humanity than for
its dazzling expertise? And they were right
that life would go on as it had. The night
was still the night. The stars blazed all the more
in a cleared sky.
These days we seldom fall
for that trick of the eye by which some tall
mist-softened clocktower or fogged streetlamp will
recall a changing face, and something tidal
heave in the chest, then ebb, leaving us all
to wonder when if ever this sea too will still.