In this lyric essay, the rediscovery of poetry in the mid career of an analyst and its enlivening impact on the analyst's voice and creative strivings is addressed through three primary influences: the poems of Wallace Stevens, the writing of Thomas Ogden, and a second analysis. Reading and writing poetry enabled the author to understand the complexity and ephemeral quality of sustaining a passionate voice throughout her personal and professional life. A poem by Stevens, Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird, is used as an organizing structure for this essay, with the thoughts of Thomas Ogden informing her renewed analytic voice. The author asks the reader to read Stevens’ poem twice in its entirety, once at the beginning and again at the end of the essay.