Yes, they said. I said it. Come back. Bearing your shield. Or

            on it. For fateful.  In warfare. In phalanx

 

To pierce. The midriff. Of a flying. Man. Disgraced. Are

           The dead. Who lieth. In dust

 

Spear points in their backs. The shield. Hardwood

           Coated. With a skin. Of bronze. More the shape

 

Of a bowl. Than a disk. Concave. Enough. To carry.

            A corpse. Efficient. Method to move

 

Bodies off the ground. So others could get back

            To the crops. What is. A saying? I say

 

Enemy propaganda. What bearing. You have.

            Phonemes, vocables and spit. Did sayings.

 

Spittle dew? Crystal grew. Clarity in song. Dewfall

             In sunlight. So hot,

 

We ran in our skirts short. And threw the massy spears.

             Sun glossed our skins and muscles.

 

What is. A saying. We were. Of similar muscular state as our sons

              And we got to leave the house in the afternoons

 

Do who knows what. Unlike the mothers of

             Other sayings. Who were veiled confined indoors

 

Phantasied. All the sayings are fatiguing me.

             The skirt shortens and falls between my legs

 

So I can exercise my extremely muscular state.

             In crushing sunlight daze I rumble in the muck

 

To practice into the other. Until more of them die.

             Than you. When I was a mother who.

 

Who can tell when I was a mother

             Who could break at the burst of speed

 

What is a saying? They sheared my hair to make me look more

              Like you, boy, before bringing me

 

To your father. What is saying

              Your darling, you.