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@Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
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Mother and Son Converse in an Ancient Crypt After Сон (“Dream”, 1910), Alexander Blok (1880-1921), Russian Symbolist I meet you in Dreams as a Matter of course. This night, We lie side by side in an Ancient crypt. Above us, Life rumbles on in Ever more voluble Boom-claps of Hubbub and Bedlam – Until the Last Day is upon us. Vague glimmer of Paschal Sunday; Far-flung Clamour of Swooning bugle. Our Catacomb is Copper-cast, but Pulsates within a Ruddy-gauzy Film of light. Wrapped in Vapours of Sunday-school Monotony and Incredulity - His Features surface, Clustered about with Swords and angels. Entombed with us, a Placid spouse shuns Rebirth, spurns Emancipation - Slumbers on in Oblivion. You whisper: In life, you were Sturdy and burly. Press harder on the Vault, and the Stone will Roll away. I answer: No, Mother - the Strength I once had has gone. I’ve suffocated in the tomb. Pray, both of you, for an angel to Come along and Roll away the Stone. Free adaptation from the Russian: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
@Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2024 Monochrome image of long shadow of photographer projected into the interior of a mausoleum.
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You had me at #PagingDrFreud. 😹
This is wonderfully unashamed and in a strange way still feels reverently to me.
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#Voice #Recording
#newpoem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026
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Irma In a Buzz-jolt of Tarok and cigars, he is Irked when his Junior remarks “She is better, but not quite Well.” Neurotic Paralysis of the female sex, Common enough in these parts. He writes up her Case history that evening. Then He meets her in a Dream – where, as Unbidden Presence at his Wife’s birthday party, She complains of Dreadful throat pains. He Takes her aside. “It’s really only your Fault if you’re still Suffering, Gnädige Frau.” Alarmed at how Pale and puffy she looks, he Escorts her to the light at the Window. Can’t get her Mouth open. Typical Recalcitrance of Women with dentures. Her Jaw slackens. He is Stunned at the sight of Turbinal nose bones Spreading like Stubble-flecked Mildew on the Right side of her Oral cavity. His Junior assures him “there is no Infection, but the toxin will be Eliminated.” They confer, agreeing on the Careful application of der Spritzer, a Squirt-needle that will ease her Affliction. He is Perplexed: These are not her Symptoms, and No way is she Stand-in for patients with Choking hysteria. He Settles on Wish fulfilment by proxy in Dreams. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026
She needs full Coitus to Unfreeze her. Twenty-eight years pass. Dirty, Cylindrical Delivery of Nicotine and Tar prompts Cancerous patches to Appear on the right Anterior Palate. Ten years of Thirty surgeries to Excise Pallid-grey, Nipple-spike Leukoplakia, Creating an Open Sightline from Mouth-gape to Turbinal bone in the Nasal cavity. Now he uses a Crude prosthetic to Talk and eat. Often Lockjawed and in Constant agony, he Seeks the Coup de grâce Gnadenschuss, which Arrives in Hampstead in 1939 - At the Head of a Sterilized Squirt-needle. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2008 Monochrome photo of a Modernist frieze at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in relation to the tragic muse, Melpomene. In the top-right corner of the image is the severed head of Medusa with her mouth wide open in a scream.
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#Reading in the comments
19th century aesthetics really used allegory as an excuse to work through some issues didn’t it #pagingdrfreud
ha ha ha. i was waiting outside my therapists office so doubly dubious #pagingDrFreud
Seriously, these guys all want to fuck their mothers.
#PagingDrFreud
Yeah. So I misread that as “adult show day”. 😳
Hashtag: #PagingDrFreud
Amber seems rude, aggressive, unreasonable... Do we know anyone else like that, Emma? #PagingDrFreud #TheArchers
In other news, I’m having recurring romantic dreams about Steve Coogan. My conscious mind doesn’t find Steve Coogan attractive. I’m a fan, certainly but that’s it. #PagingDrFreud
You know what’s gross? The sheer GIRTHINESS of some venomous snakes. Fat pythons don’t bother me, and a skinny taipan will kill you but he’s fine. It’s those robust adders, all hefty and menacing with their dripping fangs that really creep me out.
This is classic #pagingdrfreud territory, isn’t it?
Just remembered I had a dream last night that my ex was planning to sue me and was meeting with his lawyer in my living room and I kept tiptoeing around them and trying not to eavesdrop. #PagingDrFreud #DrFreudToTheFrontDeskPlease
What a surprise.
His go-to response is “Girls get less.”
#TrueColors #PagingDrFreud
I used to regularly deal with a woman at a record company called Bobby. More than once did I email her having mistyped her name as Booby.
#pagingdrfreud
Did get to have a classic #pagingdrfreud dream in which I was attempting to find my father- MAH DADDY - to get him to get rid of all the terrifying long and fat snakes which had invaded the haus.
Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Dame Prue Leith’s Home And We Dined On Swedish Meatballs. It could happen.
#GBBO #PagingDrFreud
I accidently called it the Microsoft Infestructure today.
#PagingDrFreud
That’s why I thought!!! #pagingDrFreud #daddyissues, #justplainweird @maryltrump.bsky.social -what do you think?
25. BABY, I Love You by the Ronettes. I don't know why, seeing as it's not meant to be sad. But I tend to mist up when I hear it. #PagingDrFreud
Wondering what will happen to Edward Burne-Jones's Danae in that tower? Just ask #PreRaphaelitism's most explicit fountain. #pagingdrfreud
Dang. I just tried to lock my office door with my house key. #PagingDrFreud
Random guy on the street: "you're really beautiful. And i mean that in a good way, i'm not trying to hit on you." #pagingdrfreud
Does my wish to see Rufus Wainwright play at the Wang Theatre count as penis envy? #pagingdrfreud
More dreams with @ people. This time colliding with Alaska people. We all had to run from a charging moose. #pagingdrfreud
