Title(s): Glass Margaret Price is assistant professor of writing at Spelman College. Her poetry, articles, and essays have appeared in Breath & Shadow, Wordgathering, College Composition and Communication, Across the Disciplines, and Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. She is at work on a book about psychosocial disability and academic discourse.
How to Cite:
Price, M., (2008) “Poem”, Disability Studies Quarterly 28(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v28i2.91
Rights: Margaret Price
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The chemist calls me vitreous: neither
solid nor liquid, but amorphous,
glassy. An unstable state of matter.
Shards disturb my windpipe, shift uneasily
behind my sternum. Force
dissolves, along with sleep, and solace.
If I swallowed pints of tar and resin,
would I be preserved? Or would
decomposition creep from outside in?