[NEW] Scientists know more about the moon than the ocean.
[WAXING CRESCENT] Light can only dive 200 meters down into the ocean. Below it, the “Midnight Zone” glows in the dark. (By standing in your shadow, I am hoping to become bioluminescent.)
[FIRST QUARTER] Life has a tendency to thrive in hostile environments. For this reason, Jupiter’s moon, Europa, may be able to support life within the global ocean of liquid water that is hidden beneath the ice at its surface. (This is why I am able to bloom in the dark.)
[WAXING GIBBOUS] The ocean bows to no one but the moon. Turn off the lights. Turn up the stars. Low tide wants to fold back inside itself and lap against the shores of the Sea of Tranquility. High tide just wants to be noticed.
[FULL] But a heated black body sunspot, (isolated from the rest of the photosphere), still shines brighter than the moon. Wolves should be howling at the sun instead.
written for my poetry: intermediate course. prompt: stages