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Abigail Rakow is a sophomore nursing student at Catholic University with a love for poetry and visual art. Though different in their methods, she believes that both of these two art forms have the same purpose, distilling human experience into its most poignant form and allowing us to understand ourselves and each other better. Though unpublished, she has placed in competitions for her poetry and has exhibited two temporary installation shows with her oil paintings.
Machines beep in steady,
steady ceaseless intervals,
the intervals
of the heart.
voices deaden quietly,
quietly behind the curtain,
quietly behind
the unbound curtain;
eyes shift upward,
upward as to heaven,
to alight upon
a picture in a frame.
The picture’s full of sunglow;
shining through the leaves,
the leaves of trees
all tilted in a forest.
Oh, let me through this portal
that I may be absorbed—
The pain cut free,
To enter into glory.
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