Untitled - Woman in a crumbling cell,
by Gertrude AbercrombieListening to Dizzy Gillespie from a Crumbling Cell with Gertrude Abercrombieafter 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.