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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 ...

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