...And—tanupeplous tendistolic—color-lit Helen of the flowing robe—organza-rainbow tulle-tumble!—sky-fused earth-sparked—undimmed, enfamed, celebrated-wide, acclaimed among women, word-trading, ripe-replied to him:

“That is colossal, mighty Ajax, mobile, concrete battle-bunker, shutter-down of the Akhaioi,

and Idomeneus Timber-Tough, opposite, stands among, motivates, moves through the Kretans, glowing, august, like a god,

sky-striking, earth-entrenched, stark, and flanking him, braced, bucked up, the Kretan chiefs, bright-sustained, are gathered.

Many times Menelaos, precious to, prized by Red-Splashed Ares, entertained and welcomed him politely in our home, whenever he came from Krete.

And now I can see all the other such soldiers—dizzy-causing dazzle-whipping—bright-eyed Akhaioi,

whom I could well identify, spot, and tell you their names,

but I cannot mark, detect, distinguish, make out two outstanding marshals of the battle-people,—cosmotropic geminal-jeweled order-bright:

broncobuster Kastor Beaver, and the brisk snapping boxer, good with his mitts—topnotch puncher bang-up slugger—Poludeukes, Many-Pleaser, Candy Man, the mask-painted tag-team switchback gods,

my own dear brothers beloved, whom the same sweet mother bore.

Either they failed, deferred, to follow and trail enfoamed the silver-flash fleet from—moon-crashed star-colored—trees and rocks in phantom twilight—blossom-lovely jewel-tunnelled Lakedaimon, Sky-Rattled,

or they did indeed follow, and co-sail here in their—pontoporous marivading—quick and sleek, halopellent salt-banging cobalt-keeled hard-driving sea-piercing ships,

but now, in turn, they're loath, unwilling, to plunge and career into bright-helmed warriors,—katadune submerge—dive into combat, blades and bullets, bolt unbaffled, dash undazed into—metal-biting organ-mauling bone-exposing bowel-baring—body-dropping soul-slit man-battle,

fearing disgrace and tremendous blame appended, stuck, attached to me—immersed in remorse, swimming in shame, piranhaed by compunction, overwhelmed, undertowed, circumstained.”

Thus she spoke, but already the rich—viviparous, phusizoic—grain-birthing animal-generating barley-sprouting earth—body-absorber carcass-keeper bone-box—bound them below,

held them down there permanently, loss-enlatched, in Lakedaimon Sky-Rattled—sunray-dwindle jaguar-scream toucan-swish iguana-gleam jungle-crash moonbeam-brush bongo-batter—cymbal-sizzle orbit-swing planet-glow—right in their fond dear fatherland.