Vision
by Katelyn Sack
Art by David Acevedo
A muddy, blind crow
flew down today,
and said to me:
I am wiser than your oldest sages,
sounder than your scholars, doctors,
and other magicians. They seek light,
the brightest, deepest points of knowing
in the strawberry sky –
yet, ascetic gatherers, none will look
directly at the sun.
I envy you, I told him,
you who can fly into blindness
and, falling, catch yourself on wings
amber and onyx in earth-air
crumbling for the fossils of shed feathers,
molting jet streams into clouds.
He laughed and said: It's simple,
girlie. Just follow your eyes, and fall.
All creatures, great and small,
were born for blindness.
"I am a writer, painter, musician, nanny, and political scientist currently residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. I celebrate art as philosophy at its most respectful, activism at its most responsible, and the human condition at its best."
My phylosophy in art is the essence of the color and it's visual impact on the spectator.
I am an abstract expressionist lucky enough to be able to portray emotions and messages
of beauty and peace in the canvas.