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'bipolar II vision' timothy r gates, 12/30/2008

four year old,
lived, wanted to die
decades later,
more so

spacial vision
hurricane's turmoil,
eye known
tornado's path,
eye leaps

Jackson Pollack,
streams of colours
appear as messes to the
normal
they claim,
'Any one could do that!'

Van Gogh's hues
Dali's lines
Mary Cassatt's confidence
Lee Krasner's brilliance hidden by her lover
Degas' door to Kadinsky
Die Brücke
'Starry Starry Night'

bipolar II vision
see the mess, and the
calm
hear the unspoken lines

cacophony of polyphonic
eight tones, atonal, tonal
inside their intoning
calm before the storm?
Yes.
Within the storm?
Yes, this as well.
'do you hear what i hear?'

four year old
still lives
grins at the others'
chagrin