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Could It Just Be

Aaron Williamson

Dense sensations inside a farm animal

Announce themselves

At mutant scrapyards

Wraparound bilious

Each of it good

And full of emphysema

Rat crap, debris, icing cake

Old gone-off rope

Fine stuff

Whom calm invades

Edging into some

Boat-locked febrility

That’s wearing tied boots slung

Round sixth-sense shoulders

Braced for sunsets

Over apples from the vine

Could it just be

Yet more likely

At the heart of the ash-heap

You’ll simply rattle along your

Loose piano-frisking self

Now that it’s not that what counts


Aaron Williamson

Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman.

Poem reproduced by permission of the poet.

Tags:

farming illness Surrealism vets

About this poem

This poem is an excerpt from ‘Chimp Jus’, a series of poems created for the Stephen Cripps Bursary Award and to be published later this year.

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Aaron Williamson is inspired by his experience of becoming deaf and by a politicised yet humorous sensibility towards disability.
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