April 2, 1014 - A favorite book

Prompt: title of your favorite poem, book, or film.
story cubes:  stool, knocking at the door, straight arrow.

 “The legends say something happened in Chaneysville.”

And legends don’t normally lie, though they may embellish,
just a bit.  A big city history professor returns to his rural roots
when he learns a father-like figure is dying.

A transference occurs, a passing of the seat of authority

Now is his turn to sit on the leadership stool.
Truth knocks at the door, the scales of justice
are unbalanced – a historical wrong must be righted.

The old man taught him in his youth how to track game

through the woods.  He used those tools in his new field,
a sleuth tracking information through layers of noise.
But now his sense of direction must be straight and true.

Leave the self-perpetuating baggage in the city.

Discovery and redemption require a certain resolution.