Cary Tennis: Stories, Poems, Works in Progress
From the fertile mind and rich voice of "Since You Asked" writer Cary Tennis comes fiction, memoir, poetry and song. ------"The Traveler, or, Meditations of a Company Man" illuminates the inner life of an assassin trained as a child in the art of murder and employed by a shadowy company whose national allegiances are forever cloaked in mystery. ------"The Stones of Le Santucce" tells the true tale of two beautiful Italian twin sisters whose trip by train from Orvieto to Milan in 1952 starts a cascade of events that transform a family, a town and a medieval convent. A memoir of fate, coincidence and snap decisions that shape people's lives for generations. ------"Famous Actress Disappears," a novel about a teenage runaway who becomes America's biggest sitcom star until, trapped by the machine of Hollywood money and power, she must once again rebel to find her authentic self.
Cary Tennis: Stories, Poems, Works in Progress
The Traveler: A Love Poem
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Cary Tennis
The room of my dry hiding away has a window onto snow,
the man who I am looks out on it from a chair by a table,
He feels lucky like he won at blackjack but he hears a warning
The messenger’s knock, the hotel worker, the hamper of laundry