"Peter is a queer psychotherapist, previously working in community mental health and HIV/AIDS, now in private practice in Portland and Los Angeles. He is the author of two books, Gay Fairy Tales (HarperSanFranciso 1995) and Gay Folk and Fairy Tales (Faber and Faber, 1997). He has lived through addiction, multiple bereavements and the transitions from youth to midlife and midlife to old age and believes you can too."
Sam
Where is this
You find yourself?
In our thoughts,
Wandering
Through long agos,
Rooms of sunlight
Decades dim
Or shocking-sharp
Because last week
But clearly not
What you expected,
Which was heaven
Made of fame,
Or nothing
And its deep embrace.
None of this
Was up to you.
You find yourself
In memory
Though not your own,
A guest, a caller
In the homes
Of who you knew,
Not knowing now
But being known.
