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Fact to Fiction: The Storyteller
If I must explain the robbery of my peace of mind,
I’ll plaster on a smile and see if I can find
languor of mind to do so in a manner so compelling
that you’ll never feel the horror I experience in its telling.
The unity we come to as I come to a conclusion
is a little fantasy created by the fusion
of truth and storytelling, for I never fail
to weave a pretty story out of a horrid tale.
Prompt words today are explain, robbery, unity, conclusion languor and plaster.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
And, rarely does your fusion emit fear, rather hope and ballast.
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I spent the morning watching the birds and thinking feathery thoughts. If my thoughts wander beyond this point, it gets very … unpleasant. So I think about feathery creatures who can fall out of the tree and take wing as they fall and wonder how I would feel if I could take wing.
I’m pretty sure I saw you poem from yesterday — or maybe from the day before (it’s hard keeping the days lined up properly) — as part of the introduction to Colbert. Or maybe it just sounded a lot like yours. I do know I sat up abruptly and said: “Garry, that’s JUDY’S poem…” Could that be possible?
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Was this a reading you had at your place? Is that you? I think so, but not sure. Is that Forgotten Man reading also. Good pics and it looks like a memorable gathering.
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That is indeed me reading in photo 3. I laughed out loud when I first scrolled through this post – didn’t know I’d be featured. (Also, I only just now notice that Lil Duck is paying rapt attention to me from his chair arm in the photo.) That was the inaugural reading at a then new coffeehouse in San Juan Cosala, and my only public (Gulp!) reading ever.
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And he had a great reception to his reading. If only he would finish the story!!!!
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Haha! Candid camera!
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p.s. I had to go back to that pic to see Lil Duck. How sweet!
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He had to attend the event to see big Duck read. Duckie is what I call Forgottenman. Yes, there is a story involved. Has evolved into Dux.
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🙂
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Lisa, this is a reading series I ran for two years in a coffee house in San Juan Cosala, my home town. It was a great series and well-attended for the two years until the coffee house shut down. It was called The Squeaky Wheel Reading because there was a painting of a huge wheel on the side of the gallery/coffee house where it took place. The owners were artist/musician/writer friends of mine and I started the series as a way to support their new business, hoping it would bring in customers from Ajijic, a larger town nearby. It served its purpose and gave us all a wonderful venue in which to read.
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Very very awesome, Judy.
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