Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Fragmented Precarity

After Christa Teston, “Rhetoric, Precarity, and mHealth Technologies”

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

   As the virtual 
       
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           into the
              real
          our corporeal 
             states 
              are in peril:
          as structures 
               of precarity 
                    reveal
          
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 is stifled 
            as systems 
                   go viral

    the bodily states 
         of the 
               vulnerable
            are elided 
              in the 
              expanding 
                       call
            of progress 
                      through 
                 digital wearables
            of health 
                  and well-being 
                 for one, 
                     for all

        in the gaps 
            of what 
               cannot 
                 be surveilled 
             our tools silence 
               our sensory 
                        knowledge
              where meaning 
                           is hidden 
                     beneath a veil
                 which those in power 
                         rarely acknowledge

            in the chasm 
              twixt poverty 
                 and wealth
                  how can beings 
                        become 
                    restored 
                          to health?