Psychologist

Engraving of Merlin

attendant to visions
anointer of dreams
seeker
seer
prophet
explorer in the dark interior
Merlin

I come to therapy
and am amazed that I have something
to talk about again this week
and that you guide it to clarity.

I’m surprised every time
until, expecting the unknown,
I come unheeding of my self
and find me
transformed.

Illustration courtesy New York Public Library. Detail from "Merlin. L'Euchanteur Merlin." Cesare Ripa. (1560-1645). Print. T. Jefferys, London, 1757-1772. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.