Spaldeen: Poems by Henry M. Seiden

Name: Spaldeen: Poems by Henry M. Seiden
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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
I. FROM AN ANALYST’S NOTEBOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Theological Countertransference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Snapshots of the Psychotherapist Taken by Himself Without a
Camera and Sometimes in Bad Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
From an Analyst’s Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Tinnitus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
II. I ALWAYS DREAM OF SUBWAY TRAINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
I Always Dream of Subway Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Corn Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Snow Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Story As I Understand It Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Bubbameises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Good Rumor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Kumquats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Monty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Unknown Soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..30
Looking for Lola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Turtle Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Just Like Chicken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Beggar’s Chicken, Wellfleet, 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Certain Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
What Is It About Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Acceptance Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

III. POEMS ON HOPPER PAINTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Poems on Hopper Paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
IV. SPALDEEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Spaldeen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ars Poetica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …50
Writer’s Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …51
The Sweetness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Angelology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …53
Summer Body, Winter Mango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …..55
Haircut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ……57
The Heart Is Not The Red It Is Supposed To Be . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Grand Concourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Double Sonnet for My Parents in which
Xavier Cugat Makes a Guest Apearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Reincarnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …….’64
Meditation on Love & Parrots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …..65
Men Say Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………66
V. LOST CHORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ……69
Pictures My Mother Left Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ……71
Subway Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …….75
For a Friend Who Likes to Think His Dead Father
Is Watching Over Him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………79
Lost Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………..81

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