Amazing,well worded. you have a great talent lary,always have. the expressions were perfectly worded,alas am on phone trying to get myself sleep and cant choose u my best parts. strong opening and effective ending.

I used a semicolon because the stanza consisted of two interdependent clauses: the seeming physical threat of the moon in the first clause is transformed into a paralyzing cognitive force in the second clause.

A colon would have forced the interpretation that impalement occurred in the physical sense as presented in the first clause; a period would have passed up the opportunity to reflect the clauses against each other; a comma would have been far too weak a stop; a hyphen would have made the second clause subordinate to the first.