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Scraps of an Achilles
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—48 Scraps of an Achilles He is a summer revolutionary, turning with the solar year: having passed out of his mother’s marine safekeeping, he does the work of wind: a verbal scar on the strand ten minutes of martial music Call him the waxing season, saltwater at high tide answers the moon, challenging all satellite It is right that Achilles should be beautiful and fatal: his glory walks hand in hand with death past ruined statues of his boyish virtue: his box of broken boys bled dry, his skin unmarred by history or the weather called remorse Caught by the shadow of his heel whose half-god flesh couldn’t be caught, he remains a hero of the sun shepherd text-2.indd 48 11/22/10 2:07 PM ...