melancholia - n. a form of insanity characterized by great depression of spirits.

A depression of spirits--a swooping of lucid, transcendant ghosts teeming downwards in celestial bombardments, a sweet white flood of light stumbling and crying up out of your lungs like moonwater: a chalky insanity so suffused with life that your pale wet heart sutures up against the bellowing skin of willows and elephant grass, old skins of beating things still fiery, like dusty swans flailing in dry rice stubble, bleating out their last hoarse chords. Brass saxes whimpering in the night, smelling of crickets and coolness. Herons plowing the glassy ditches, their hooked claws silent as ecstasy, feathers bristling like the scent of street lamps limpid within the dark. Melancholy crazy, sure as the day I was born.