Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Autumn: Envisioning Jackson Pollock

After Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind

Audio of Autumn

In the shaft within a refracted lens
The sliver of the vase through which we peer
Unravels an experience wherein 
Sight, sound, and smell appear and disappear 

In this scene the senses are transfigured 
Foliage mingling with fragrances of musk -
A lithograph of wandering figures 
Roaming toward the evanescence of dusk

Autumn’s gauzy 
visionsThresholds
 halt time’s swift pass
Its painted streets a blur of splattered hues
Into whose whispers visitors trespass
The observer waiting, a silent muse

Such momentary glimpses offer hence 
The emergent 
echoesOpening, Voice
 of existence