Someone has left a spear stuck in the sand

[sovay]

Oh, hell! Christopher Logue. And the sixth volume of War Music still unfinished.

Achilles' face
Is like a chalkpit fringed with roaring wheat.
His brain says: "Kill him. Let the Greeks sail home."
His thigh steels flex.

I am totally watching him as Swinburne in Ken Russell's Dante's Inferno (1967).

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ach. War Music is a work I've been going back to since vol one. Logue and I drank wine together after a reading, but I hardly remember the man at all; it's the poetry that bit deep. As it should be. Work for the ages. And, yeah. Unfinished. Which is maybe kinda fitting, but.

[sovay]

Logue and I drank wine together after a reading, but I hardly remember the man at all; it's the poetry that bit deep.

That is, actually, a wonderful kind of epitaph.