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POETS AND SAINTS

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allen Poe (1809 – 1849), American writer and poet

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POETS AND SAINTS

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Jamie Dedes

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It speaks to them like an old-growth forest

whispering into wise and willing ears.

Or, perhaps it’s cellular memory, ancestors

not silenced by death at all but having their

say along some thread of DNA by which

chaos becomes story becomes chaos again.

Or might it  be some rarely seen insanity.

Check the DSM*, where you’ll find it laid out

grossly defined and oddly diminishing.

No naming stops its quiet ineffable flow, slow

and cool in a fast and overheated world.

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*DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Photo credit ~ Białowieski Park Narodowy in Belarus in Poland courtesy of Ralf Lotys under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. This is one of the last largely intact primeval forests in Central Europe.

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