Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Thresholds

Audio of Thresholds

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