"like Ocean
which is 9 times around
earth and sea (Heaven is 9 times
around earth and sea folding and folding
earth and sea in its backward it
wraps and wraps the consistency
[. . . ]
On that edge or place
inverted from Ocean starts
another place
Tartaros in which all
who have been by the statutory
thrown down or overthrown, are
kept watch on Night and Day
(Night’s house is right over
their heads, in which one door
Day goes out when her mother
comes in and neither
are ever together at the same time
‘at home’ — Hell is just over
their heads
and so is the ‘way-up,’ Bifrost
(Styx’s house and Iris the messenger
[ . . . ]
this marvelous ladder the
color of all colors
. . .
and a great part of her melted
as tin does from the heat of him blasted
where Zeus had tossed him
and then in the bitterness of his anger Zeus
tossed him into Tartaros
the previous time when all the land had seethed
and Ocean’s streams and the sea
had boiled —
[. . .]"
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