Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Fragmented Thresholds

Audio of Thresholds

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

    Ability and 
disabilityInvocation, Disability: A New Genesis
            intertwine within 
          our 
fragmentedDisability: A New Genesis, Stimming
 selves
     revealing 
                     embodied reality
         as morphing forms 
                 into lived spaces 
                                     delve

     the threshold 
          that separates 
                    
selfDisability: A New Genesis, Voice, Stimming
 and 
                         
worldInvocation, Disability: A New Genesis, Vine
                  breaks 
             upon collision 
                      of 
barriersDisability: A New Genesis
             as fluid bodyminds 
                   emerge 
unfurledInvocationVoice, Vine
             from the chasms of 
                         built exteriors

         yet tensions 
                erupt 
                 upon collision
                 as alterities resist 
                     stable 
formsDisability: A New Genesis, Voice, Vine
                       coalitions united 
                              in 
vision Autumn
                               disrupt 
                          seeming harmonies 
                               to 
transform Precarity

            though limiting 
                   boundaries 
                       seem to be
                        still 
                  disabled selves 
                       struggle 
                           to be free