Second Person Plural

Eumaeus 623

so you bring your foreign committees

your launched disturbed sentries

you leave with your fortune intact

but humanity left behind

over, over this brief space

when we describe the invisible

the tolerable wrecks that

easily tether us

rather out of close improvement

and all this evidence of noise

we are watchers we

composing knowers of fate

and we find our footholds

in sleep.

Eumaeus 624

a lord comes in forms of agreement

disguised in brass and toy hat

chanting a song of increase a

surplus of watery success

but we do not regain

all the sunken countries

the crescendo of air

instead the steam of night

pays down

and we find ourselves falling

through the market of history.

Eumaeus 625

The years depend on a bit of doing

they extend so privately gem-like

and advise tidings and signs

of simple circum-navigation

the tarpaulins that cover our lost sisters

are wishes for land.  There are also

jumpers who have a chance to do it all over,

then jump again, anyway

would they try to land

in the place of their birth?

we are lost in the explanation of all these fools.