Bumbershoot
Umbrella’s lighter offshoot



 


Sigmund Says

by Mary E. Moore

I

Dreamily, streamily,
Freudian Symbol-speak:
wishes fulfilling in
brain waves complex.

Seemingly innocent,
phantasmagorical
images function as
stand-ins for sex.


II

Idously, hidously,
Œdipal Complexes
dictate that children will
covet their Ma’s.

Genitals urging so
ultraunconsciously,
sweet little kiddies would
kill off their Pa’s.


III

Slippery, dippery,
Psychopathology:
governing memory,
motive of wit,

overdetermining
accidents, slips of speech;
states many mishaps aren't
chancy, one bit.

 





Mary E. Moore, Ph.D., M.D. began her career as an experimental psychologist. After working in a hospital, she decided to attend medical school. Subsequently, she became a rheumatologist, combining teaching, research and clinical practice. Since retiring from medicine, she has been writing poetry. Her work is primarily rhymed verse in traditional forms. It has appeared or is forthcoming in Möbius, Raintown Review, The Mid-America Poetry Review and several other journals and anthologies. She was The HyperTexts’ Spotlight Poet of the month for February, 2007.