Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Vine

After D.J. Savarese, "Passive Plants”

In its union of substance and spirit 
Its leaves and tendrils become 
entangledVoice
Its soul exposing what words can be writ
Even as it reaches toward light, strangled

Yet the vine resists, its 
threadsVoice
 
unfurlingInvocation, Thresholds, Voice
 
As its fragile surface belies its roots
Its strength emanating from 
earthDisability: A New Genesis
, hurling 
Its parts outward with its labors and fruits

Encircling natural 
formsThresholds, Disability: A New Genesis, Voice
 with strict 
tensionInvocation, Thresholds
 
The strands of history progress and regress
Yet in its constant upward expansion 
Beyond their grasp, the vine 
seeksInvocation, Voice, Stimming
 to 
transgress Vine

Even as the 
worldInvocation, Thresholds, Disability: A New Genesis
 tugs as we ascend 
Still do we strive toward 
pathwaysVoice
 that 
transcendInvocation, Closing