Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Fragmented Autumn: Envisioning Jackson Pollock

After Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind

Audio of Autumn

[visual description] 
In the fragmented poems, words break mid-line
Flowing down the page as a tangled vine

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