The Apollo has Landed
The Apollo* has Landed by Peggy NelsonNikki Nelson Crabbe *According to Robert Graves (THE WHITE GODDESS), Apollo (often known as the sun god) is the male principle, the opposite pole…
Nikki Nelson DiFranks
Poems The Apollo Has Landed (with Peggy Stebbins Nelson, 1985) Poems to the White Goddess White Goddess as Witch Childhood: Poems of Innocence Poems of Experience: White Goddess as Love,…
Social Workers and the NASW Code of Ethics
Social Workers and the NASW Code of Ethics: Belief, Behavior, Disjuncture by Nikki Nelson DiFranks, Ph.D. October 1, 2005 Results of the Dissertation Research: A quantitative descriptive survey of a…
Postscripts
Siegfried Transformed Oh woe to Wotanfully clademerging now from darkness . . . There is within you a tragic poet --one who has crafted timeand the ductile bladesof ironyguilelesslywithout intentto find what…
Poems of Experience: White Goddess as Love, Loss & Lust
Silent Womb of Self Hard moments, these,Requiring faith in unyielding silence.Yet I too know that need to be alone,To gather into the cloak of one's beingAll the trembling limbsAnd Whitening…
Poems Escaped from New York City
Found in a Volume of Shakespearean Sonnets: A Photo of My Lover's Last Love In Shakespeare's Sonnets I come upon your other woman, Dark Lady of the Sonnet, once Mistress of…
P.N. and the Moon
Words of a Gilyak Nomad Look, Oh White ManWhen the moon is roundCan you not see him--The Nibach*On the moon? See, Oh White ManWhen the night is lightThere he goes,…
NYC Psychotherapist(Retired April 1, 2018): Dr. Nikki Nelson DiFranks
Education: PhD in Social Welfare (CUNY, 2005) MS in Social Work (Columbia University, 1995) MA in Psychology (New School for Social Research, 1983) BA in English Literature (Arcadia University --Beaver…
N.N. and the Night
"I Ran Faster", which appeared in the original "Apollo," has been replaced by the following two poems. Individuation Full moon mandalaof perfect peacespinning my lifelike a ball ofyarn unwinding.Nights…
Leftover Poems
Leftover Poems Christmas Eve alone: tying up ends unwrapped gifts unraveled crochet Memories of you. Stillness undoing: trying to forget tying knots while trying to untie knots Your tatting on…
Epiphainein
Penelope Laurie on the sandand you are smittenwhile I am bereftthe Irish havesuch lily white skinyou said it must be the salt airI can still tasteon your hands. To say…
Childhood: Poems of Innocence
If you rememberNever to forgotThe YouthThe wild hopeThe dream . . .You will forgetTo rememberThe wrinklesThe wearinessThe short days. P.N. Dream Play Where is the dream, Margaret,Young as first…