COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE The poet who became a bridge -- POEMS BY TEN PSYCHOANALYSTS -- SALMAN AKHTAR -- Conceptions -- Rhythm and Union -- Worthless Angels -- Summary -- A World without Seasons -- That Summer -- Our Love -- Calendar -- To an Impotent Rescuer of My Soul -- GERALD GARGUILO -- The Found World -- Distraction -- Solitary -- Reflections -- Silent Spells -- Death in the Open -- Un-titled -- Friday Night -- April Thoughts -- FORREST HAMER -- A Poem Also about Healing -- Genesis -- A Body of Thought -- Lesson -- Revision -- Taking Leave -- Initiation -- The Point of the Story -- Thirst -- SHERI HUNT -- Night Terrors -- Sunset Rain -- Explaining Stars -- Vengeance -- A Little Company -- Spider -- Diurne the Goddess -- ETOH -- Green Lake -- ALICE JONES -- Sex -- Circus -- Pool -- Fish -- Mystery -- Open -- Dream -- Insight -- Commute -- EUGENE MAHON -- Legacy -- Paranoia -- Dream -- Self Portrait -- Clockwork -- Cloak and Dagger -- Luciano -- Suicide -- Oedipus -- REBECCA MEREDITH -- The Widows -- Intergenerational Delta Blues -- Survived by His Longtime Companion -- Goose and the Ladies -- @ The Airfield: The Marymoor Radio Controlled Flight Club -- Said -- In a High Window -- When Old, Old Women Up and Get the Blues -- ARLENE KRAMER RICHARDS -- Tell Me -- Retired -- Sorry -- Post Office -- Deer Isle -- Moving Day -- Mer -- Halloween -- My Mother -- ARNOLD RICHARDS -- Elegy for Muriel -- A Picture at the Prado -- The Troubadour to his Lady -- Theology is Cosmology or Before the Weighedthe Neutrino -- Father's Day -- Spider -- Petersburg, Va. 1965 -- Conquistador -- For my much younger sister on the occasion of her birthday -- ELISE SANDERS -- Central Park -- Old House -- Dancing Tree -- Dream: The Royal Road -- Memory Now -- The Fishers -- A Dream: The Riddle of the Sphinx -- A Dream: Magic Carpet.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle -- EPILOGUE The spider who became a poem.