Let's workshop this poem about about achieving inner peace in the quiet of the wilderness (psychosynthesis) as opposed to on the therapeutic couch (psychoanalysis)
Peace Without Parsing
In the boring quiet of tousled jungle
psychic spiders can no longer
be ignored—and yet
if one caves in to that quiet
(resisting the urge to fill it),
those spiders over the months
(beyond pleather-couch
sessions of gouged analysis)
become welcome in the synthesis.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)