Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Precarity

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

As the virtual 
transformsThresholds
 into the real
Our corporeal states are in peril:
As structures of precarity reveal
voiceDisability: A New Genesis, Voice
 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?