Five Poems by Sean G. Meggeson

 

[micro] divine comedy   

 

 

1. infer no 

 

               hell 

               o 

 

 

               bell 

               ow 

 

2. purg a tory i o 

 

                g 

                o 

         go go go go 

                g 

                o 

                g 

                o 

 

3. paradisio 

 

               sta 

               y 

 

               s 

               ta 

               y 

 

               s t a 

               y 

 

               st           

                  ay          s     t     a     y     s     t     a     y     s     t     a     y     s     t     a 

 

 

 

 

stone sonnet  

 

 

stone                  

bone                   

stone                   

stone                   

 

lone                     

tone                     

lone                     

tone                      

                               

gone                       

one                          

gone                        

one                         

zone                 

zone                  

 

 

 

 

z  

 

 

en 

 

z 

 

en 

 

z 

 

en          act 

 

 

 

memoir 

 

 

lived in jug   

 

jug don’t know  

 

 

 

 

bridge 

 

river 

bridge 

river 

         river river river river river river river river river river river river river river 

ri 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sean G. Meggeson lives in Toronto, where he works in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with his dog, Tao. He has been published in Antiphony, Die Leere Mitte, Ice Floe, The Queen’s Quarterly, The Temz Review , The Trinity Review and others. He won the League of Canadian Poet’s Spoken Word Award in 2024. Meggeson has published three poetry chapbooks, Cosmic Crasher (Buttonhook, 2024), ta o/j, and soma synthesis (both from lippykookpoetry, 2025). He is currently Guest Poetry Editor at Blood + Honey. Forthcoming: a chapter on Ricoeurian poetic symbolism and its use in psychoanalytical clinical practice in Paul Ricoeur’s Impact on Contemporary Psychoanalysis: From Analysis to Synthesis (Lexington Books, 2025).