'Trade or climate change drove them south. Conquerors in the style

of Indra himself, their wars and divisions are historicity, the subject

of a fossilised verse, which like the grey pottery of an ancient citadel

breathes life into an Indian heroic age, the origin of a timeless myth…'

i hear the supernumerary 'the' repeating over-often, and also alerts me to some arrhythmia…then again, to cut it may make this too much like mr. ezra pound