Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – Untethered by Allison Joseph
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Untethered’ by Allison Joseph. She explains what this poem is about ‘Untethered is both a personal and a communal poem. I am recently widowed, so am feeling highly untethered from my previous married life. But the poem is also concerned with the isolation were all feeling because of the COVID-19 situation. The struggle is way too real and way too much’. Allison Joseph is the author ofConfessions of a Barefaced Woman(Red Hen Press, 2018). She lives in Carbondale, Illinois.
I have matched artwork by @lollykakumani with this poem untitled.
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via Poets.org
Untethered by Allison Joseph
what anger in defiance
what sympathy in doubt
emotions steady try us
demanding every shout
what sympathy in doubt
what pleasure in our pain
demanding are our shouts
such hazardous terrain
what pleasure in our pain
mere thinness to our skin
such hazardous terrain
such unrelenting din
sheer thinness of our skin
the ruptures and the breaks
such unrelenting din
mistake after mistake
we rupture and we break
we stagger and we shine
mistake after mistake
inhabiting our minds
we stagger and we shine
we live our lives on spin
inhabiting our minds
and undermining limbs
we live our lives on spin
and thrive until we grieve
we undermine our limbs
then get the strength to leave
we thrive until we grieve
emotions steady try us
we get the strength. we leave.
what anger in defiance.
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