The Psychology and Mythology of Tattoos

The men entered the locker room strutting, as if they were returning from the wars. One man took off his shirt and revealed on his back a tattoo of a blood-red sun rising up through his nipples and setting somewhere under his chin. Another manly soul walked…

Birth Stories and Other Tales of Incarnation

To be human is to tell stories. To be psychological means to reflect creatively on the images and archetypes our stories contain in a manner that contributes to the unfolding of our psyches. According to Carl Jung, this is also a creative process. By…

An Evening of Wine, Mandalas and Madness

A group of women astrologers were at a wine bar in New York City sampling the latest reds and whites from some heavenly wine company appropriately called Taurus and a jigger or two from some godly Greek called Dionysus who threatened to raise the temperature…

Wonder’s root

I saw a vast open space,
a sprawling park
ringed by silent spectators 
watching one man being pursued
by a murderous motor-car
as…

Writing in the sky

Writing
in the sky
in letters
100 feet high 
for all to see 
would be
less fraught 
and as naught 
to smallest 
footnote…

Eruption

As brave, more wise, 
to turn one’s eyes
to Heaven’s gate
in face of hate, 
without recourse
to righteous force 
e’en Jesus used
 — attack…

If I should die

If I
should die
tonight
light
no lamp
nor stamp
plot
to mark spot 
wherein I’m laid 
head
to rest
on breast
of soft earth
place of…

expendable down here

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Festive smiles and raucous bull horns entreating.