Kourtney Rabinowitz's "Momentary Peace" after Lewis deSoto

The Lewis deSoto sculpture, Paranirvana, photographed along with other pieces in the BLOW UP exhibit at Hickory Museum of Art. 

MOMENTARY PEACE

by Kourtney Rabinowitz

after Paranirvana by Lewis deSoto

I lie in repose

As the arms and legs

Of our modern world’s soldiers

March by, convinced if they don't,

The cogs of progress will freeze in place

I live in repose

As greed’s roots

Take hold in the corners of the sphere

And the curves of our hearts

Spiraling into the composted remains

Of its ultimate reward

I lie in repose as

The moving pictures of my mind

Flash

Rubble where walls once stood

Flowers where the discards of existence abided

Outstretched hands where fists once thrusted

I awake

And hope it was not just a dream