Hades

The poets got him wrong.They made him grey. Sorrowful. A figure at the edge of things, defined by what he lacks — light, warmth, the noise of the living world. They made him into a symbol of the thing they feared and could not look at directly, and like everything made into a symbol, he was made smaller than he was.Hades is the correction.Speaking in his own voice — precise, patient, without self-...