songanddancegirl

LOVERS

LOVERS  IN  A  DANGEROUS     TIME

They are so wrapped up in each other  blue smoke

rises from their heads  Once separate   now fused

a  participation mystique  

In the news  a couple married 88 yrs.   The old

groom reports:  I always keep a hand on her knee

Another warrior of a 75 yr. union said:  I make sure

to keep a piece of my Chapati for him 

Yesterday my 3rd husband baited me: Who was your

2nd funniest husband?   Unbaitable   I did not answer

Likely  I have not married him yet

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Winter 2013   *inspired by: Embracing Figures With Blue Patina Otto Guttfreund 1913

STEEL

FEEL  LIKE  MY  SOUL  HAS  TURNED    TO  STEEL*

2 girls skipped down the street today   protesting

our grey pre-winter mortis  Looked like they would

careen into sad Canadians   20 somethings   blonde

& coated in sheep  Now stop to light smokes  Giddiness

transformed to hip   with the flick of Bics

Today the anniversary of Sandyhook’s slaughter   20 who

will never cavort except in the emptiness of late afternoon

When parents forget   then remember   then forget to

remember

The shooter   also 20   shot his mother in the head 6x with

her own gun   He hadn’t left the house in 4 months    Since

then  there has been the Boston Marathon bombing   the Navy

Yard shooting   & each day in the U.S.   82 have died of gunshot

wounds

Recently in a Sand-tray session a 20 yr. old man placed a robot

near a breastfeeding Mary   Was he hungry? Curious? Murderous?

Like the shooter   crouching in the shadows by his mother’s bed

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(Sand-tray Therapy: Jungian psychotherapeutic modality utilizing

figurines in sand as part of the healing process)

Winter  2013     *Bob Dylan  Not Dark Yet  1997