VISIT 1
Jane: I want
Therapist: to praise
J: this world.
T: Even the innocent girl
J: who ran across my street
T: in her yellow dress
J: & blue stockings.
T: She was chasing a rabbit
J: which was grey
T: & pleased her.
J: She was in fact
T: perfectly innocent
J: & was hit by a car.
T: You want to praise her little life,
J: so full of everything
T: I’ve forgotten.
VISIT 6
Therapist: You fell
Jane: yesterday
T: when they tried
J: to pull me up
T: for no reason, off the ground
J: & into the window.
T: There was a party there.
J: More like people
T: who upon reaching
J: some height
T: struggled for, wish only to come down,
J: disregarding the way the light when viewed from such heights
T: changes slower & is clearer
J: & the battle is over
T: & they forget to die.
VISIT 8
J: Persephone’s chorus
T: made to look down
J: & like a demon
T: you’d want
J: to take home
T: to your mother
J: to torture her
T: with greater beauty
J: Persephone
T: was nothing new at all
J: dancing alone
T: on a small hill occasionally
J: admiring the daisies
T: & letting the great criminal
J: touch her.
VISIT 15
J: I’m looking for the compassionate
T: guide to the cavern.
J: Who says cavern anymore
T: anyway or tendril?
J: as if nothing specific
T: anymore yet the smell of mint
J: on the pillow.
T: In 1938
J: Ezra Pound found a name
T: for the light on the water
J: but never wrote it down.
M.A. Vizsolyi is the author of The Lamp with Wings: Love Sonnets (Harper Perennial), a National Poetry Series winner. He is also the author of two chapbooks: Notes on Melancholia (Monk Books) and [Untitled] (500places press). He lives in Brooklyn.
