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The Shrink
by Kathy Kopp → (All Poetry by Kathy Kopp)
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An office visit to a psychiatrist.


Wearing a tattered shooting jacket,
a Hemingway moustache
sunk in his cunning features,
his rugged climbing boots eroded,
he grips my hand in greeting, smiling.


The canvas chair I perch on
draped in soft white fur
lush against my back
would fold like a camping stool.


He sits in a secretary chair
disguised by tan deer hides,
questioning my every word:



And did you hear voices?
he asks with a numb face.
I can only fidget.


No, I rarely hear voices,
I whisper without eye contact.


Leaning forward, he sighs, Ah!
with a satisfied smirk.


He harmonizes my words
booming approval.
We speak in perfect fifths,
he taking the lower note,
I the higher.


 


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 Reviews of "The Shrink"
Reviewed by Jerry Engler
Reviewed on February 29, 2008
I certainly like that image of a Hemingway mustache sunk in his cunning features. As a matter of fact, I really enjoy all of your description and dialogue here...Jerry


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