Wake.

                  Midday
                                  at a turn
                           in the road

                                                               a reaping machine

                              unexpectedly crosses the highway from field to field

                                                                    and halts
                                             the funeral parade. 

                                                                                  Hot, still air
                                                    is an amber to hold
                                                      dark mourners

                                                                who sit in their cars
                            and devote this unconscionable moment

                                                                                                      to enjoying

                                                                                                                   the sun.

See also: A visit recalled – Dame Edith Sitwell
https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-visit-recalled-dame-edith-sitwell.html

See also: Variation on a Theme by Edna St. Vincent Millay
https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2019/10/variation-on-theme-by-edna-st-vincent.html

See also: Premature embalmment of anti-art
https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2016/04/dotty-premature-embalmment-of-anti-art.html

See also: Poésie trouvée, the unsought text
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/colour-blind.html
and
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/poesie-trouvee-unsought-text.html

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Catherine Eisner believes passionately in plot-driven suspense fiction, a devotion to literary craft that draws on studies in psychoanalytical criminology and psychoactive pharmacology to explore the dark side of motivation, and ignite plot twists with unexpected outcomes. Within these disciplines Eisner’s fictions seek to explore variant literary forms derived from psychotherapy and criminology to trace the traumas of characters in extremis. Compulsive recurring sub-themes in her narratives examine sibling rivalry, rivalrous cousinhood, pathological imposture, financial chicanery, and the effects of non-familial male pheromones on pubescence, 

see Eisner’s Sister Morphine (2008)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/sister-morphine.html

and Listen Close to Me (2011)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/published-this-autumn-listen-close-to.html 

and A Bad Case (2014)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-bad-case-and-other-adventures-of.html

 

An Elementary Sampler of the Psyche.

Superego

 Come into the garden, Maud,

 I am here at the gate alone;

 And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,

 And the musk of the roses blown.  

 

Ego

I am here at the gate alone. 

Id

Maud! Into the garden! COME!

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Contrarily, Sigmund Freud's wire-frame spectacles

were prescribed for far-sightedness so we must

assume that he saw quotidian distant phenomena

with greater ease than when studying the record of

the Ancient World up close. Freud’s prescription is

R: +5.00 -0.75 x 20 L: +7.25 -1.25 x 68

(Lenses tested by optician in 2013.)

See also: A Parallel Universe of Freudian Terms

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2019/05/stage-fright-and-cage-fighting-parallel.html 

 

See also: The Murder of a Doctrinaire Freudian by Her Analysand Nephew 

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-murder-of-doctrinaire-freudian-by.html