Mary Bach-Loreaux has worked as a social worker, special education teacher and vocational counselor. She is a watercolor artist and photographer who writes because she has to. Her poetry, stories and essays have been published in The Healing Woman, Dreamweavers, Pegasus (Kentucky State Poetry Society Journal),St. Anthony Messenger, The Independent Review and other journals. Mary loves words passionately, especially those used to heal and care. read Mary's review of A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy by Annie G. Rogers, Ph.D. |
Safekeepings Under my bed is a box of books, classic as Augustine, holding prisoner my ideas while I am trying to be somebody else. Not van Gogh or even Ignatius of Loyola although my times have been insane, and my lucidity, briefer than the saint's vigil by the bed for the space of an "Our Father." I keep my paintings under my bed and my pains too. I keep my heart and my treasure, photos of my vision, my artistic persona. I keep Pierrot under my bed pirhouetting freely inside his porcelain doll box, painted tear on his hard white cheek under his silver eye. Under my bed are the hopes and dreams of a thousand winters past the Reformation, western civilization marching forward and I still am not free. I keep my masks under my bed and this is my pantomime, illuminated in gold-leaf ink. I keep it all under my bed waiting and hoping for the performance of a lifetime where Birkenstocks are ballet shoes and I am whatever comes. c2003,2004Mary Bach-Loreaux |
Mary Bach-Loreaux |
Mary Bach-Loreaux has worked as a social worker, special education teacher and vocational counselor. She is a watercolor artist and photographer who writes because she has to. Her poetry, stories and essays have been published in The Healing Woman, Dreamweavers, Pegasus (Kentucky State Poetry Society Journal),St. Anthony Messenger, The Independent Review and other journals. Mary loves words passionately, especially those used to heal and care. read Mary's review of A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy by Annie G. Rogers, Ph.D. |
Waking Dream Freud was here talking about a fine straw hat that would look good on him and go finely with his cigar. I lay on my bed, eyes closed, admiring the hat. And then dybbuks came and made fun of me. "What are you doing," they asked, "in twenty-first century Ohio -- and you a woman playing hostess to the likes of Freud?" "Getting ready. Getting ready," I said, "to learn things of the heart that he has brought here stuffed in his wondrous hat." - Mary Bach-Loreaux |
