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Ache
Written by Wren Alman
Heat in the pit of me
Broad wounds across narrow shoulders
Fire up my spine
Air in my ears
Failing body
Trembling hands
Cane that says
‘none of your business’
Eyes that say
Please don’t ask
I can’ t take it
Heart that says
I loved a girl, I loved a girl, I love a girl
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Ache
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2018
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Poetry
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Wren Alman
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There is such a Fire
Written by Wren Alman
I walk through the world with my head bowed
Your words come to me like dandelions through the cracked concrete
Desperately blooming
We move together, eyes down
Anxious to look away, afraid to meet one another’s eye
To say ‘excuse me’ as an admonition of need as we move through this world
To say ‘could you repeat that’ like an admittance of guilt
To say ‘the blanket you are weaving in your mind is only half colored with our words, and half with your impression of us.’
The strike of my cane like lightning against the ground in a quiet place
My body the tree, smoldering inside
You another tree, singed from the heat
Our canopies are untouching, shy of one another, of sharing shock and pain and fire
I did not know what it was to love someone like you
Even if I could have heard the gospel, no one was preaching it. To me, to us.
Bodies that are strange and beautiful and not what they want
But yours is a body so lovely in the way it bends.
Like wisteria blooming, wrapped around your Self
You are purpled and climbing ever upwards
And when you touch me, I don’t need to hear the gospel because it is in that
Uneven rise and fall of your chest
The stinging smell of tiger balm and the sensuous coil of your body
seated in a black and metal throne
The touch of your curled hand against my face. The tremble in mine.
The gusty press of words against my ear.
Lightning struck the tree that is my body, your body
The thunder is my cane, your chair, the storm is the silence where there might be sound, the twist and bend of your body
And there is such a fire, shared between us.
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This is a love poem from one deaf, disabled lesbian to another disabled woman about shared pain and experience and the profound capacity for beauty in bodies considered undesirable by others.
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There is Such a Fire
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2019
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Poetry
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poems by RAYMOND LUCZAK
HUSBAND FUTURE I MY FUTURE HUSBAND
in ASL gloss and English
one-day One day
happen this will
future happen:
man a man
sign-sign fluent
a-s-1 in ASL
pop-up appears
smile smiling,
wait-wait waiting
same- me as I have.
us-two Us two
bored have tired
educate-educate of educating
hearing hearing
men men
talk-talk who won't
slow slowdown
won't while speaking
learn-learn or bother
sign learning
won't sign.
us-two Us two:
us-understand-pow understand:
connect connect.
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Husband Future Mine
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2020
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Poetry
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poems by RAYMOND LUCZAK
LIPS-KISS-PRAYTWO-TOGETHER-ALWAYS I
TWO PEOPLE KISSING FOR THE FIRST TIME IS ALWAYS AN ACT OF PRAYER
in ASL gloss and English
[ open palm only ]
long -ago out- there
snow-fell-slowly snow -on-ground-rose-slowly
trees out- there snow-on-ground-rose-slowly-to-nose
skies darkened body-shiver-cold almost -dead eyelids-droopy dreams feverish
[ index finger only ] person-walk-distant- approach
me -th irsty sun aim-down- at- me
ray spin -drill- between -eyes
head lightning person-stand-tilt
person spin -fall- bounce -bounce person-on-ground head-spinn ing
spin spin spin
[ open palm and index finger ] gusts wind not-matter
two- people-app roach ing-each-other
kiss-each- other pray lips- kiss- pray two- together - always
1.
A lifetime ago snow fell slowly but surely. It rose so high. Trees everywhere were consumed by white. Eventually night came.
I struggled to stay awake, but the weight of my eyelids pulled me closer to my death in a fit of feverish madness.
2.
I saw him first in the distance. He had the walk of thirst.
The desert sun had bore its rays relentlessly on him
until he couldn't see ahead of him. His mind was split in half.
He tried to stand for as long as he could, but he whirled and crashed
into an oasis of hallucinations.
3.
No matter the weather,
two people kissing for the first time is always an act of prayer.
The ASL gloss portion of the poem first appeared in We A re N ot Your Meta phor:A Disability Poet ry Anth ology (Zoeglossia Fellows, ed.; Squares & Rebels, 2019).
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Lips-Kiss-Pray Two-Together-Always
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2019
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poems by RAYMOND LUCZAK
INOCULATIONS
in memory of Bruce Hlibok (1960-1995)
Funny how much New York's changed
since you died. Rents have gone way, way up.
Brooklyn is shockingly hip and unaffordable.
Even artists starting out are getting out.
Sleeping on a sofa in the living room for over a thousand dollars a month has become just too much.
So few mom and pop shops are left.
New York's a shopping mall turned inside out.
Name a chain store, and it's there.
They are the only ones who can afford the rent. Greed's become the latest sickness.
I don't speak in tongues anymore.
I speak metaphors now. It's safer.
Just in case I get accidentally infected with
what brought you down in the end,
not the AIDS thing but that other plague
of inconsolable rage you'd felt with everyone,
including me. The deaf community held you back
with their glances bordering on pox
every time you mounted a new play.
Didn't help that you came from a prominent deaf family. Today no one seems to remember you.
Are we all so easily infected to forget?
When you died, I never thought I'd leave New York, the city that you and I loved, but I have.
Even now my hands can hear you calling me back.
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Inoculations
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Out of the Darkness
An ASL Poem by Justin Jackerson
In the black background with white fonts: This is an artistic performance poem presented in American Sign Language. Subtitles are provided but they are not a literal translation.
In the black background with white fonts: This poem is about coming out of the darkness of the closet and stepping into the light of the truth.
Signing
In the end of video, in the black background with white fonts:
2015
Poem written and performed
by Justin L. Jackerson
www.youtube.com/justjackerson
Video produced and directed
by Jabari Phillips
www.jabariphillips.com
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Out of Darkness
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2015
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ASL Poetry
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<a href="https://dyerartscenter.omeka.net/exhibits/show/deafqueerart/justinjackerson">Justin Jackerson</a>
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Justin Jackerson
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The first image shown is the following text in white on a black background: “A-Z Story: LGBTQ by Dr. E. Lynn Jacobowitz 2018”. A graphic with the word “Pride” in rainbow colors is then show. Then Lynn is shown, “Hi. I’m Lynn Jacobowitz. I will share an A-Z LGBTQ story. This is in honor of Gay Pride. A graphic with the letters “LGBTQ” is shown. Then Lynn is shown. Lynn signs “A” (hiding). An image of a closet is shown. “B” (staying in the closet). “C” (being in an exclusively gay group). “D” (going on an adventure). “E” (contemplating). “F” (determining). “G” (am being a gay person). “H” (doesn’t want to be identified ). Image with text “Identity Crisis”. “I” (identifying). “J” (losing identity). “K” (self-analyzing). “L” (am being a lesbian &) “M” (there are transgenders). “N” (it’s normal). “O” (more & more). “P” (people). An image with text “You are not alone” is shown. “Q” (queer). “R” (realizing). Image with text “Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are”. “S” (coming out). Image of a rainbow flag. “T” (respecting). “U” (honoring). “V” (looking at). Image of people carrying a large rainbow flag at a Pride parade event. “W” (the world). X (must). Image of a rainbow heart with text “Gay Pride”. “Y” (show pride). “Z” (forever!!). Image of a rainbow “ILY” handshape.
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A-Z Story: LGBTQ
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2020
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<a href="https://dyerartscenter.omeka.net/exhibits/show/deafqueerart/drelynnjacobowitz">Dr. E. Lynn Jacobowitz</a>
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