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
by
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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