Pale Beasts

Every culture tells tales of mystical white animals. Buffalo elephant owl tiger dragon all are symbols whose coming means change. Good bad never indifferent always complete change. In Central Park on the second longest day of the year one of them shimmered into being with a message. You are my chosen avatar. I . . . cant Rambo Jefferson replied from guilt and he knew the creature understood him. I mustnt! He felt certain that thoughts sent and received are complete. You are innocence! And . . . . . . the image faded. Finally. Irrevocably. Ram felt a heart-wrenching disappointment. You are chosen came again clear as black letters as tall as a Unicorn the size of a Clydesdale. The creature hadnt vanished. Hed simply disappeared.