Sea, and rumored sun.
Lying down to the south
or off to the west.
Some went sadly and willingly.
Whereupon others followed,
torn, one imagines, not knowing.
A remainder froze defiantly,
choosing not to change,
stamping dwarf value on slave culture,
stripping to the waist and
wading the icy waters of the reed-choked lake,
to cut the tendons of the backwards-gazing pickets.