Bring them back and make them tell us.
Bring them back again and make them tell us again
until they have satisfied all our curiosities and
diffused all our doubts that we may reengage
and wonder anew, construct sturdier doubts
from first principles and second pressings.
Send them away and bring them back to observe
(and to question the utility of) our achievements,
our restructurings of the status praeteritus.
Send them away again, banish them, then just when
they are on the verge of forgetting, bring them back.
Demand their silence, then make them speak.
Sit them against the wall opposite the window
so the sunlight can clarify their forms.