Perpetual
black red sky, vary' d only by degree, fixeth our wan eyelids
against thou stay⟭ sun.
Here abide
900 million, the most of those remaining.
Flanking
thou, ring of mapped embers, first, somnambulist cities,
magnetic, atomic.
And to the
left, degrees of ever-light, where first the corn is sweet,
then crumbles unfathomable.
We who fixed
the sky, who murdered children' s moons, ye, some martyred but
more fed, willing bridegrooms to fire and to doom.