08-14-2020, 04:26 AM
(08-13-2020, 11:47 PM)Joyful Noise Wrote: in the event of moon disaster: edit #2Admittedly, I'm still a little unclear about who is "they" in the last stanza. It seems like "they" is referencing mankind, but then the final lines are about how they suckle from mankind's marrow? Sorry, not following.
One splitting tension creates a
Small disturbance in the fore-
Step of giants
For craters are only as deep as the
Man who dives down into them
One distant dust speckle,
Giant to its kingly children; they
Leap from land to land,
For from the marrow of
Mankind, though they know it not, do they suckle To conserve words, you could just simply say something like "Mankind unknowingly suckles."
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