Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Disability: A New Genesis

After Aimi Hamraie, Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

Audio of Disability: A New Genesis

Cracked bits emerge from the seams of the street
The curb cuts seared into an 
earthen Vine
 ground
In the crevice where the 
selfThresholds, Voice, Stimming
 and 
worldInvocation, Thresholds, Vine
 meet
The 
voicesVoice, Precarity
 of the 
disabledInvocation, Thresholds
 resound

In the beginning there was disability
Diverse 
formsThresholds, Voice, Vine
 bespoke Universal truths 
And shaped a Universe in harmony 
With crips and cyborgs, as with age and youth 

Yet post-paradise came 
fragmentationThresholds, Stimming
 
Of crip experience into being
Of a kaleidoscope of subversion
Of normate templates breaking, upending

In breaking the 
barriersThresholds
 we create
Can we rebuild before it is too late?