Self Portrait of Depression

1995

An unmoving rock

peculiar in pattern

unique to the mind

touched by a breeze

struck by a storm

and still inert

as if unmoved.

 

A floe of ice

gleaming and mirroring

the passionate moves of sun and sea

foaming and panting

mingling and shifting

carrying the ice

stiff in its freeze.

 

In the mouth of a cyclone

at the point of lightning's strike

in the embrace of a rainbow

in the eyes of the brilliant lights:

adamantine rock

frozen lifeless

removed from the day.