the chrysalis shatters

Medium

Digital

Artist Notes

© 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved ____________________________________________________________________________________ mapping the heart ____________________________________________________________________________________ the shadows some days seem as impenetrable as brick as harsh as steel wool as dark as the pit and then for no explicable reason the brilliant gold of sunlight casts them off as if they never were ____________________________________________________________________________________ the mystery seems bound to the blood and the moontides and processes so inchoate that no matter how they’re probed and isolated and charted no whitecoated lab rat will ever fully untangle the relation ____________________________________________________________________________________ poets call it despair dreamers call it hope ____________________________________________________________________________________ you brash credentialed agitators unveil your mystifying formulae and cry eureka! but we who choose to feel as well as think laugh quietly as you scrawl your quotidian equations on the chalkboard ____________________________________________________________________________________ knowing one good rain of tears will wash away the proofs of your years of sterile questing one good laugh will shatter that brittle board knowing there is yet that spark that you cannot measure or define ~ © 2011 RC deWinter