Photography and Cinema

All her life
She had been a successful writer and speaker.
Yet after every public performance
she felt intensely anxious
‘Had she really done well?’
She looked to men for reassurance,
seducing them,
‘I am Mildred’s rival, but fear her;
to escape my mother’s anger,
I became my father,
to conceal the identity I have stolen
I pose as a woman’.