Selenography

moon, every two-week long nightfall

that, freezing over the boiling half,

is our wax and wane

(gibbous?)

sometimes as close as it gets (perigee syzygy?)

but mostly not 

Moon (the largest in the solar system in relation to its host planet)

is named for what it is to us

And our planet is named after all that stuff on the ground

All the other planets named after the old gods

That nobody worships anymore

Whatever wars were fought in their name

Never mattered to them

When the weapons fall and the wounds close

Or not

They all float on

Scar tissue is an active process

Without our vitamins, we might unzip 

Without our moon, what comes undone?