Poetical Commentary

About the Book

Faces in the Night some nights endlessly empty some nights fatalistic forlorn some nights full, capable, fantasy some alone, abandoned, shopworn dreams they come unbidden unchained, escaped, uncloaked mirroring my anxieties wreathed, evanescent, drugged smoke langorous, bemused, befuddled abed within dawn’s embrace dreaming fractal fragments where to align my face i turn to behold your curvatures enwrapped beneath the sheet i reach to absorb your familiar warmth feel the pulsing of your beat the warmth of Aurora’s gentle rays collides with Night’s cold frost i search for sense and meaning am i found or am i lost like the cycling of the waves and tides i fall and rise and fall my hopes, my fears, my uncertainties ebb and surge through all adrift like jetsam, flotsam at the boundary of aware my barriers, my guardposts discarded like used underwear neither counscious nor unconscious aware but not aware drifting in this nether land caring without care at last there comes a tipping point of sensing what i sense the mantle of personality resumes my life’s pretense consciousness now assumes command creeping in on silverfish feet how shall i prepare my face to meet the faces i shall meet?

About the Author

Frank Seinsheimer III, M.D. is a graduate of Walnut Hills High School, Yale University and Harvard Medical School. He trained in General Surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Orthopedic Surgery at the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in Hand Surgery at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He currently practices Orthopedic Surgery and Hand Surgery in Montgomery County, Maryland. He has trained for many years in Martial Arts and holds Black Belts in Tae Kwon Do, Aikido and Jiu Jitsu. He has written two books. One, “Unarmed Defense Against Weapons,” is a real world approach to defense against weapon attacks. With approximately 140 pages of text and over 600 photographs, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the subject. Specific training exercises are also included. Frank Seinsheimer III, M.D. is an observer of life, the universe and everything. His other book, “Poetical Commentary,” contains some of his commentary regarding these observations. Although some of the commentary rhymes, he considers himself more a commentator and less a poet. It seems just chance that much of his commentary rhymes.