Five riddles for psychoanalysts

(In honor of the Sphynx whose code was cracked  When Sophocles and Freud the myth attacked)

                                                                  1.
    What looks up
    But sees below
    The surface 
    Of all human show,
    By wording all the things
    In flight
    From reason
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JAY UDALL

Jay Udall’s poems and short-stories have appeared in many literary journals, magazines, newspapers and anthologies.  He is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Welcome Table, published this year by the University of New Mexico Press. Born in Washington, D.C., the sixth child of parents he describes as “an environmentalist politician and an arts activist,” he taught at community colleges and worked as a legal aide on behalf of Navajo uranium miners pursuing compensation from the United States Justice Department before completing an M.F.A. at New England College.  He is now a
Visiting Lecturer in writing at the University of Nevada.

Here, for your pleasure, are three new poems by Jay Udall.

                                              
                                                                                 Irene Willis
                                                                                 Poetry Editor
                                    

Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: September 7, 2009