MY BROTHER WAS SELECTED FOR HIS LOVE
Myth is the secret opening
through which the inexhaustible energies
of the cosmos pour into human
cultural manifestation
Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
On Chuck’s birthday (he’s the coach)
(and today he’s 73), he’s had a call
from a former player, and she tells him
she’s six months sober. Why these stories
keep happening with Chuck! This is not
a question. On the phone he says, We talked
for an hour and all we talked about was God.
This is the side of my brother who sings
when the moon comes out at the beach.
My brother is the evidence of a transcendent world.
One’s own mind turned inside out.
He finds the beam of light in a chalk line on the ball field.
Your brother, Jim
23 April 2024
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