DescriptionCopyright 2016 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Meteor Envy
It was an ordinary August night in this sterile suburb by the sea, cloaking the claustrophobic day with a dark flat curtain that did nothing to dispel the woolly air that, thick with the unshed tears of heaven, clotted even as I breathed it - but better to be outside than choked by the clutter of witless air-conditioned conversation.
I dragged a chair across the lawn and settled into in the almost-silence, punctuated only by the whir and buzz and hum of hungry things with wings and the snuffling of the neighbor's ancient dog, freed for his nightly tour of duty round his postagestamp enclosure.
I sat smoking and thinking, trying to figure out how a life once so fully, freely lived had narrowed to the confines of a holding pen whose only exit leads straight to the slaughterhouse. These uffish thoughts spun round the cul-de-sac of my brain until I wanted to shout and stamp and tear my hair out by the handfuls.
Then, unannounced, the ancient hero loosed his minions, a shining army of footloose cosmic miscreants that blazed across the sky in the most beautiful disorder imaginable. Like crazed schoolboys held for detention and finally freed, these glowing pieces of the stars that made us raced and frolicked, spinning, tumbling, showing off their colors.
I jumped up and ran along the perimeter of the yard, following, until, winded, I stopped, lit a cigarette - then anotherandanotherandanother, making my own sparks, wanting to be one of them, watching until the sky returned to the staid, empty blue it had been before, all the while hoping when I hit the slaughterhouse, my indestructibles will find their way to wherever Perseus is camped, so I can enlist. ~ copyright 2016 RC deWinter The Perseids fade from view over a salt marsh in Connecticut.
RC DeWinter, Fairfield, CT Member Since December 2008 Artist StatementHello and welcome to my portfolio on Imagekind. Here's a bit about me:
RC deWinter is a Connecticut writer/digital artist whose artwork has been published in many print and online journals, including, among others, The American Muse, Fine Art Photography, Poetry Nook, 2River View, Pink Panther, Official Feature Online Entertainment Magazine, Garden Tripod and also used as set décor on ABC-TV’s “Desperate Housewives." In 2013 Ms. deWinter she was one of six finalists for a Shorty Award, the national social media awards, in art. Ms. deWinter is honored to be the first digital artist invited to exhibit at the Arts of Tolland Gallery in Connecticut. Her 4-week solo exhibition was an unqualified success. Her poetry publication credits include The New York Times, Uno: A Poetry Anthology, 2River View, Another Sun, Pink Panther Magazine, Pilcrow & Dagger, Plum Ruby Review, Poetry Life and Times and numerous other print/online publications. If you enjoy my work, please spread the word, and thank you for stopping by.
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