Sundappled #1

by RC DeWinter

Title

Sundappled #1

Artist

RC DeWinter

Medium

Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting

Description

Copyright 2015 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved

A Perfect Autumn Afternoon

It was one of those perfect autumn afternoons,
the kind that lures you from your torpor
and begs you to bathe yourself
in the dappled sunlight streaming through the trees.

Unable to resist, I took myself out to the garden bench,
intending to lean back, close my eyes and daydream.

Best laid plans -

My mind would not cease from the torment
I planned to leave safely locked inside the house.
Not even the sun's warm kiss could erase
the anxious thoughts that,
like leaves caught by a tricksy wind,
flew around my tired brain,
skittering, colliding,
coalescing to form even greater worries.

Surrendering to self-destruction,
I pulled a cigarette from the ever-present pack
and started the necessary conflagration.
I drew in a lungful of sweet poison, then exhaled;
a great sigh of smoke enveloped me.
I repeated this process until the crisp fall air was defiled,
clouded with bluegray vapor.

Memories arose and took shape in that smoke surrounding,
piercing with bittersweet thorns, rue, embers and ashes of regret.
Like a penitent waiting for the summons to the confessional
I reviewed my every sin, categorizing old to new, small to great.
The burning cylinder between my fingers was forgotten
as I wandered the corridors of remembrance
until at last it scorched me, snapping me back
to what had been, before my foray,
a perfect autumn afternoon.
~ copyright 2015 RC deWinter

Sunlight and shadow play hide-and-seek on an autumn afternoon in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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