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Lynn Alicia is a Jungian psychoanalyst, and besides her private analytic practice,
she teaches, supervises and consults for The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley,
and for candidates and interns at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
Alchemerical
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What if you could sculpt whatever you dreamed?
What if your voice spoke in clay
the way some speak in numbers
the way I siphon ink from tears and the sea?
What if all that you dreamed
couldn’t be shaped in clay
couldn’t be fired?
What if it needed grain
needed the density of a growing thing?
What if you could also carve wood
and join wood to clay
as earth is joined to tree
and still keep the fire?
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| John Lund photo ©2009 JLW Image |
A Good Catch
Of course you sculpted the pelican
with a fish in its mouth
golden fish treasurefish
Of course I must write
about hunger
about the skimming flight the dive
the misses
His fishline arcs goes taut
tight pull of lifestruggle
golden fish treasurefish
bringing it home
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| John Lund photo ©2009 JLW Images |
Cloth-in-Clay
You travel among tribes
where weavers star
in the play of identity
and O those intricate designs!
You sculpt a man with a ceramic belt
patterned in a hieroglyph of clay bits
Is this a code? Is there a key
to your language?
Naked not nude
What is the difference?
A man paints sculpts gazes
at nudes
A woman makes herself
naked
To make a self
And here you are
a bare Medusa-headed
surf rider on a drift of wood
with seashell pink
ceramic wings
Or are they fins?
Either way
you fly!
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Medievals believed
the pelican
pecked her own breast
to feed her children
Bird as symbol bird as Christ
Here one raven pecks
the chest of another
till the heart is exposed
And we humans know who does that
don't we?
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The clay hand
large enough to hold
a cracked human skull
has soiled knuckles
dirt under nails
as if it dug hard
and gloveless
into the grave
Facing
hand and skull
a roselipped
blue-eyed
BuddhaBabe
and on his cheek
a crystal tear
Oh I almost forgot
the BuddhaBabe’s arms
are raised in surrender
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Arcadia
Part goat part man
Lynn’s Pan
relaxes on the mantle
one leg crossed over the other
shaggychested shaggyhoofed
and yes the lower arms the hands
are hairy but what about the….
I get up and
look between his legs
and he’s all man
Pan pandemonium panic
I call it
wildhearted glee
