Songless Era

A fine ash obscured the sun.

Leaves grew large as rooms.

Stamped recreants strolled near the pond of wands.

There was a great and terrible brightness    that was pretty much like a fire    but it had lots of eyes in it.

Four syntaxes correspond to four styles of going on.

Can you hear? (how ‘bout now.) Non-chanson:

lie down in the tent of a servant-queen;lie down in the dust; go on.

One kind of sentence remembers the accident;

one kind of sentence is a scar.