Sonnets Fragmented: The Poetics of Disability

Voice

After Meryl Alper, Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality

Audio of Voice

In our 
tangledVine
 bodies, what is a 
voiceDisability: A New Genesis, Precarity
?
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 
thread Vine
Tread the space between voice and voicelessness
The fissures amid the said and unsaid
In which our machines limit yet 
transgressVine
 

Still the voice 
echoesOpening, Autumn
 from inner chambers 
The 
selfThresholds, Disability: A New Genesis, Stimming
 
unfurlingInvocation, Thresholds, Vine
 from infinite depths 
As our tools 
formThresholds, Disability: A New Genesis, Vine
 artificial layers 
Enjoined yet separate from our source of breath

Even as a 
pathwayVine
 toward voice we 
seekInvocation, Vine, Stimming
How can we express what it means to speak?