FLUX & FLOW Poetry Film: "At the Colorado State Psychiatric Hospital" from Two Minutes of Light

Описание: Our series "Flux & Flow: Perugia Press Poetry Films" reimagines Perugia poets’ work through film. This video features Nancy K. Pearson's poem "At the Colorado State Psychiatric Hospital" from her Perugia Press book, Two Minutes of Light. The film was created by Perugia Press winter 2026 intern Lola Stacy, and the poem is also read by Lola in the film. Find out more about this poet and her book on our website: https://perugiapress.org/product/two-...

Music: "Melancholia" by Godmode.

Full Poem Text:

At the Colorado State Psychiatric Hospital

No one around here knows the difference
between a return of reason and a certain cunning. I’m playing

dead, floating with my head down.
My hair dangles like kelp sucked toward the drain.

All day I follow the anvil clouds, the great sky capacitors
throwing hot wire into the sea.

Later, a guard shouts: Everybody out of the water.
Now dripping on the sand,

such easy humility, these things,
waiting it out, the decisions made for you, following

the whistles: Circle up, confess, turn in sharp items.
I watch the endless buildup, every day

a puddle, a great lake escapes and rises
so high above me.