in the event of moon disaster

[Joyful Noise]

in the event of moon disaster

One     splitting tension    creates a
Small disturbance in the fore-
Step of giants
For sinkholes are only as large as the 
Man who dives down into them  

I do like the imagery of the sinkhole, and bravery in relation to the moonlanding

One distant dust speckle, this stanza kinda confused  me, seems totally different not a quick connection, especially in relation to the quote. Is this dust earth? Me? A star? 
Giant to its beloved leeches, they leeches can be anything that sucks the blood of me or earth or a star...
Leap from vein to vein, leaping leeches?
For from the marrow of so this is the man who is dust And being leeched upon why?  I'm lost in the image, the mission failed but why leeches?
Mankind do they suckle am I the leech?




*The title of this poem is pulled from the header of a 1969 speech prepared in the event that the Apollo 11 crew did not return from their lunar mission.* 

The quote was more of a jumping off point, and not all of the poem is meant to reflect it pointedly. I see your point about the leaping leeches…Leap has to stay the same, maybe I can change the bug. The second stanza is more from the POV of the man on the moon, looking back to earth (the dust speckle).