once more unto the whatnot

danged quintet...i feel like there ought to be some attempt to bring the principle players together, but if there're only two singers, it'll be, by defied definition, a somewhat nebulous piece. multiple alliances? is that the term? according to le tigre? probably not?

quintet for hades, demeter, orpheus, and eurydice/persephone (an adequate translation)

2 or more characters:
"justice for i and everything
that saw her move and breathe, everything
that wept and worshipped in her wake."

1 character:
"justice for the rose that drops
for lack of light from her eyes."

1 character:
"when she walked, her step
was a bird that dropped in flight
to sweep the ground with a giddy wing."

1 or more characters:
"watching from behind rock and stone
feeling lichens stretch and tangle
in the heat of her presence."

1 or more characters:
"the vines stretch toward her like snakes."

1 character:
"a star broken from the heavens
spilling light like a song."

2 or more characters:
"what will we do without her.
where will we go.
we overswell ourselves with sorrow. we crack
like stone in a bone-dry riverbed."

persephone and eurydice:
"aaaaaah aaaaah aaaaaaaaah" (possibly to the melody of those songs they were supposed to have sung)