Finding the Right Image by RPCV Poet Ben Berman (Zimbabwe)
Why Finding the Right Image Can Be So Challenging March 20, 2023 By Ben Berman (Zimbabwe 1998-2000) I place the six-pack of beer on the counter. The clerk looks up at me, then down at the beer, then back up at me, then leans in and says, I thought I was gonna have to ID when you first walked in, but now that you’re up close I can see all the gray hairs on your head. I’m not sure whether to be flattered that he thinks I look twenty years younger than I actually am or upset that he’s noticed that I am starting to go gray. Although, after I get home and examine my head in the mirror, I realize that there is something about the word, gray, that feels off—as though it is too generic a word to capture the intricate blending of complementing colors sprouting from my head. Later, at . . .
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Ben, Thank you for this joyful evocative read. If my memory serves, at forty or was it fifty, I recall…