Stalking The Linda Pastan Poem

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I still search

on the bookshelf

as if retrieving a lost

child, a missing parent

with just the right spell.

How grateful I am

you are still standing,

though I might

find you elsewhere,

on some screen.

I long to see your face

and feel your spine,

some proof that all

my fermented sorrows

have known this world

here in my hands,

held across my heart.

Pray backwards with me,

get lost again,

just you and me.

 

  • Michael Alcée’s work has appeared in Psychoanalytic Perspectives and Tarry. In addition to being a poet, he is a psychologist and author of Therapeutic Improvisation (Norton, 2022) and The Upside of OCD (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).

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