Rabbit: The Sharpness of Shadows

Rabbit: The Sharpness of Shadows: The Sharpness of Shadows A Kansan by birth, and somewhat related to everyone in the cemetery,  she was trained initially in a delib...

The Sharpness of Shadows

The Sharpness of Shadows

A Kansan by birth, and somewhat related to everyone in the cemetery, 

she was trained by a flat and vast landscape

instilling a pronounced feeling of smallness

in the magnitude of her natural surroundings. 

She associated this large and uncluttered space

with a simple and unadorned life. 

Her people were grounded by good soil,

but feathery clouds filled her head.

Searching for novelty, intoxicated with color,

she left, striking out beyond the 

prevailing opinion that that one should always

stay where they are.

As she remembers her restless past,

Each scene selectively animated

with more softness, more reverence, 

ignoring the sharpness of shadows.

Warm air bends the light

until it meets the eye of someone standing in the road.