Artifice

Humans are the way nature tortures
Herself. Nature is the way Earth uses.
The moon has barely any uses
And is far from being
The only moon. Apollo

Astronauts, named for the sun
God of a recent pastoral tribe
Of a recent species, recently
Scratched an itch left over
From when something without artifice

Knocked two careening rocks
Sideways as they spun around
A trivial example of a sun.
Thinking about such things is the way
Flesh formed from clay tortures herself.