Angel of Madness

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."--Edgar Allan Poe
 
nightly the news plays      
midwife to the dying      
deathbed doulas      
feigning compassion      
     
thank God psychopharmacology    
dabbles in miracles      
that Trazodone turns tumbling      
boulders into sleeping stones      
     
my most-days mind is a loupe      
magnifying cracks into crises      
bringing far off fires close up      
"catastrophizing"      
     
but somedays my mind is far away      
fashioning rainbows from rust      
there is music in this madness      
where even fumbling hands can paint