The Specter of Her Mind
and in the way she offered
herself with sexual abandon
to the camera. It’s me! I’m
back! I’m still beautiful!
A movie star long past the
expiration date of her sexual
appeal. But the specter of her
mind persisted, totally oblivious
to its non-existence; a memory
of the desirable woman
she used to be.
The Storyteller
“We need stories to understand
ourselves,” said the author of a novel
that shook the foundations of a world
religion, such was the awesome
power of his story’s meaning; and
a loving father in the armed forces
nourishing his son’s hunger to
understand life’s meaning through
his own stories, spurs the son’s desire
to pursue a meaningful
life healing
the sick and become a storyteller
like his mentoring father.
