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 droops
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 stretched 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, crack
like stone in in a bone-dry riverbed."

persephone and eurydice:
"aaaaaah (tum tum)
aaaaaah (tum)
aaaaaaaaaaah (tum tum)"