Skyhorse
by Carol Jacobs
Title
Skyhorse
Artist
Carol Jacobs
Medium
Digital Art - Mixed-real-digital
Description
“Skyhorse” is one of 73 images I created for the book "Nailing Together Bits of Chaos: Jerry-Rigging a Life", poems by Donna Brua. The book is available for sale at my web site http://bitsofchaos.com/books.html
Inspired by the poem "Connections,"from the line “Clouds are horsetails, stars dippers and hunters.”
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Connections
Erik, who’s five, looks at the rind of moon
and says, “That could be a fingernail clipping of God.”
Dirk, at four, seeing his breath turn to fog,
thinks that ants might think it their sky.
Clouds are horsetails, stars dippers and hunters,
his walk his father’s, his eyes his mother’s.
We group plants and animals with commonalities,
elements by number and valence.
Thought sparks through synapse,
lightning links clouds, storms brew
from fronts colliding, atoms fuse, oceans crash
or whisper on shore in bursts of energy.
Hands mold sand into castles.
Camus and those silly existentialists
thought they could live in the moment,
that if they stared at their hand long enough
they could separate it from themselves,
but when they came from their trance,
their hand was connected to their arm,
memory recalled a past,
mind conjured a future
formed from the known.
Einstein conjectured formulas
of the unknown from the known.
Poets, pulled on by dark matter,
things they can’t see that have heft,
write words of wondering,
yoking two dissimilar knowns,
hoping that disparate bonding creates
a flash of light to illuminate the obscure,
their words meaning more than words.
But in our final moment,
alone, separate, we wonder
if the world we knew was our mind’s creation,
and when death’s tide shudders ashore,
will our castles wash to grains of sand?
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My signature is part of the image and will appear on the final print.
The "fine art America" watermark does not show on the image you purchase. It is only to protect the image online. My images are all copyright protected and are not to be copied or reproduced in any way without written consent.
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December 8th, 2013
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