In the roan hour between then then again, the now, in the Babel
Of a sorrel ship gone horizontal to a prow1 of night, the breach2 of owls3
Abducted4 by broad light, but blind, in the crime, the titanesque of rare
Assaultwe who have come backpetitioning, from the chair
Electric with bad news, from the stunning5, from the narrows
Of an evening gall6, from the mooring7 of an hour slanted8 on the follow
Bow, she rose from a bed of Ireland like a flyted trout9, a shiny
Marvel10 on the sailor's deck, an apologiapining
As once, as at a salted empire port, he washed
Her fleeted body they lied, the best of them, the cream crush
Of this, the madrigal11 sacrifice of that, the best of them,
The slowest velvet12 suffocation13 of their kind, did not come
Whittled14 back by autumn, at an hour between thorn chaff15,
Not come riddled16 with oblivion, the crossing a shepherd's staff,
The moment between Have Shall Not Want, we who have salt
Always know, that we who havethe best of usdid not come back.