Untitled - Woman in a crumbling cell, by Gertrude Abercrombie Listening to Dizzy Gillespie from a Crumbling Cell with Gertrude Abercrombie after an untitled painting referred to as Woman in a crumbling cell by Gertrude Abercrombie She didn't try to hide the constraints society has attempted to build around us for centuries. But as I stared through the bars, bemoaning the barriers between myself and the horizon, Her fingers tapped along with Dizzy's dazzling rhythms--staccato notes full of fire and energy, Until I turned and saw, as she danced to the syncopated stratospheric notes, that the cell was crumbling. Go forth, she pushed, Dizzy winked his agreement, and I sashayed out through the wall they helped destroy.