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