Disability Arts Online

When you think about that
isn’t it it’s a marvel isn’t it,
these things which for me have been so
like somebody hanging
great heavy lead weights over you
so you can’t get up off the floor and move
that those very things
those lead weights
were the things that helped me make something
that suddenly stood as an art work.

And that’s like an amazing transformation
of stuff that is so damaging
kind of threatens to be completely crushing
that that can become transformed
into something that is
that has its own kind of beauty
and place in the world.