Kourtney Rabinowitz's "Chrysalis" after Alix Hitchcock

Kourtney Rabinowitz photographed at the Art of Poetry Catawba Valley event on June 9, 2018. She reads in front of the Alix Hitchcock piece that inspired her work at Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC.

CHRYSALIS

By Kourtney Rabinowitz

after Evolving Moves by Alix Hitchcock

Her thoughts tumble and twist

Insisting she reach toward them

She resists folding away

Persisting they entangle her

Twisting their vines around her arms

Wrapping around her legs.

She is cocooned

Hoping she is actually a butterfly.