Vignette 2: Twenty-five words.

No sooner had he performed the Ritual of the Word than an Imperial Edict expunged the Ritual Word. The Ritual Word was never spoken again. 

At the temple of the Oracle at Siwa, Alexander the Great 

was reputedly acclaimed Pharaoh of Egypt and proclaimed 

the son of Zeus. The worship of the deified Alexander 

superseded the pharaonic rule and supplanted worship 

of the ram-headed sun god Amon-Ra.

Vignette 1: Twenty-five words.

‘Remember me? It’s been forty-eight years,’ the stranger with the gun greeted him.

      The man looked up blankly, without recognition. 

      The stranger shot him.

 

 

See also, Dead Wife, New Hat. (Femme morte, chapeau neuf.

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2012/10/dead-wife-new-hat-femme-morte-chapeau.html

 

Harvest.

 Hope lives on air.

The empty hay barn,

stacked with raw sky.

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Photo credit: RH Dengate / 1960's Barn / CC BY-SA 2.0           

See also, Ellis Island 1902:

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2016/03/ellis-island-1902.html