Actors from other plays
and there's no crime in that
shared the stage; 'shared' meaning
each in their own speech rapt
from those unspoiled days when it was safe
to step out in the sun and nothing was 
more natural than a breath of air
strife in paradise nonetheless
in entangled languages was heard declared 
like competing birdsong 
from impenetrable brambles
taken, for were we not then the fairy-folk,
as the announcement of spring
each aleph in a tongue more obscure
not once translated
but we so swift along the river
have taken on board incoherent melancholy
not for study on a flat screen
but to learn to live with it-
navigate calmly our stage 
through log-jams of other actors 
serpentine as dancers weave
-learn to live well with it.