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VII. Atalanta: “The Swift…”

Atalanta was a hero of the wilds, a mortal who outpaced children of the gods. Left in the woods as a babe, she was nurtured by a mother bear, and grew up to become a hunter and athlete, a champion of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.

She traveled with Jason as one of the Argonauts and joined a party of heroes in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. As rash, prideful heroes fell one by one under the humongous boar’s tusks, Atalanta took aim and fired an arrow that sunk deep into the monster’s side. She was the first hunter to wound the Calydonian Boar, shattering its aura of invincibility.

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Hot breath,
over your shoulder.
Pins and needles
on your spine.

Keep going,
you’ll run it down.

Pick up the pace,
choke down the air,
exhale.

Keep going and
you’ll draw first blood.

It looms overhead,
a bonfire bound in fur.
Bloodshot eyes,
as they blame you for its plight.

Rainbow slick,
and flowing past the concrete wall.

Skim the surface,
race the ripples,
walk on water.

You’ll run it down.
Pick up the pace.
You won’t get gored.
You’ll draw first blood.

Hot breath,
over your shoulder.
Pins and needles
on your spine.

Keep going,
you’ll run it down.

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from The Pythiad (featuring Cheryl Wilson), released September 22, 2017

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He has a Bachelor in Music Composition from DePaul University and a Masters in Music Composition from Northwestern University. Jim Gailloreto is the artistic director of the non-profit Jazz Artists Resource

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