Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability
Ruth Li
Fragmented Voice
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In the fragmented poems, words break mid-line
Flowing down the page as a tangled vine
In our
bodies,
what is a
?
is it
a word,
an utterance,
a say -
a means of expression,
a gift of choice -
a message heard,
a meaning to convey?
We
who navigate
an amorphous
tread
the space
between
voice
and voicelessness
the fissures amid
the said
and unsaid
in which
our machines
limit
yet
Still
the voice
from inner chambers
the
from infinite depths
as our tools
artificial layers
enjoined yet
separate
from our
source
of breath
Even as a
toward voice
we
how can we
express
what it means
to speak?
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