Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Fragmented Disability: A New Genesis

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

Audio of Disability: A New Genesis

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

Cracked bits 
    emerge 
    from the seams
  of the street
the curb 
   cuts 
      seared into
an 
earthenVine
 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?