Fixed stars.
Shapes in exchange for times
Blot out the center
The earth, the axis,
year in year out
Epicycles of the very small
Contemporary diaries
Europeans in solitude
Travellers to dusky landscapes
Explorers of the unknown
The escape from something beyond the
 search
Ships, all those ships
Escorts for carriers
Voyage for the New for the Old
Across the westerly winds
in the wake of the twofold possibility
: bringing home the beyond
The price more than the struggle
Flowed east and west
Importing a New World
A period of ice,
overcast gray-white
The fall of the Known
Images of the edge
The end of the tremble
enshrined in legends
descriptions of evidence in these regions
part of more distant heavens
the sun and the moon close together
They left their orbits
rotted away in uniforms
The teeth flogging
The fingerprints of agony
Distant as the effort
A thunderbolt still singing.
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