Poem: ‘Big Men Falling a Long Way’
Christopher Logue, 5 November 2015
Sunset.
Greece to its ships to eat and sleep. But Achilles could not sleep Because he could not stop himself Thinking about Patroclus. How in this war or that They saved each other’s lives a dozen times a day, Or how rash words died in him at Patroclus’ glance. He tried this side, then that. Then he got up and went down to...