artemis II

they                       went                           farther

than everything 

we know of

farther than their families farther than their garden beds farther than their porch lights farther than their neighbors' garbage cans farther than the grand canyon's reddish-brown sunsets farther than the freaking sunsets farther than the robins farther than the graveyards farther than the stars you can see from the rocks they are so far away from farther than the mangoes ripe on the trees farther than everything that was ever taken farther than all the bones farther than the people farther than every single person in the whole entire world         farther than the whole entire world

farther than anyone else ever made it

farther than anything their great-great-grandmothers ever dreamed was out there

farther than their tiny planet,

a swirly blue marble where the sky sometimes falls and the earth sometimes shakes and the inhabitants love each other so hard that sometimes they kiss and sometimes they kill and sometimes they send each other

f     a     r     t     h     e     r

than we ever thought we'd go