FirstYouEvenly hoveringI thrashing among the leavesPondering the depthsBathing in the transferenceAnxiously floatingWhile waltzing through the love and the hateLaterFreely associatingContemplating your owl hootsCutting throughTeasing out the red threadsPutting Oedipus to restNowCircling Eros and ThanatosSteering the horseSkirting the bramblesLanding feet on the groundBracing for the inevitable fall.
Lucille Spira, LCSW, Ph.D., is a member of NYSPP and a co-teacher at AIP. She is co-editor of Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely (2014 Gradiva Award) and editor of Rage and Creativity: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis (IPBooks).