Mali Mann is a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She is also a child supervising analyst. We have featured her poetry before, in this column, and are very pleased with her latest work. She is a member of Pegasus Physician at Stanford University, a forum for sharing poetry with other physician poets.
Clara Schumann's Loss and LoveVirtuoso pianist, Clara,wife, but an untimely widowmother, whose unborn child never arrived,lost the ones who were her born ones too.her pouring tears came like rain,words ran off in silence.and, time travelled on.Fleeting Eros flew over the curtains of cloudlanded gently, circled above her chest.The longing gaze anchored in her eyes.The sad, tender and lavished intermezziSurrounded the pair like circled armsComposed new dreams, fears and longingsechoed wild in her newly born sonatathe imagining me envisions two like onein a warm July night, looking on shimmering stars.No one could be heard; the time was let to goRising rhythm of her fingers on highflying keys was madewalking in the meadow in tiptoes, whispered not,their dream of one sonic worldLetting the late blooming roses only speak of love
—Mali Mann