The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae

The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae

Author:Shane McCrae
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux


3. HELEN AFTER TROY

The battle over, Helen

Raised her mask. Blood dimmed its bronze

Cheeks and forehead, its bronze chin

Shielded her eyes from the sun

She ordered her youngest page

Who had before served Paris

To hurry back to Troy, and

To return with Hector’s horse

To lead the horse on a new

Rope to her. And though the horse

Refused to trample the smashed

Corpse of Achilles into

The sand he had earned, still she

Untied it, first feeling then

Her shield arm was broken, still

She shouted the horse away



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