This Is Called a Show of Force

Behold the planetary scene.
It’s hard to notice them at first,
Except on the night side of things,

When their trails and hives in towers
Glow with the electrical light
They have so recently evolved.

This is the species entangling
The rest when they aren’t strangling them.
As an outbreak, they’re impressive,

Not for their scale, not for their range
So much, not even for their scope,
But for their singularity

And all their recent novelties.
Tremble stars. The worms now bear arms.