\"Concrete\"

Breath & Shadow A Journal of Disability Culture and Literature

POETRY

PETRA KUPPERS Concrete My hip hurts. What is it to you? There is no street that travels through though you remember your aunt, or Skipper, the dog. The street hurts. One step on the grass, skip over the concrete bit       relief in the green middle. The car hurts. Hurtle like a dog over the street, break for you. One step, and we would have gone too far. Hip hurt. It drives all night. Remember the grass. You skip. We stop. It's concrete.

 

Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community artist and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. A poem of hers is part of a collaborative videowork: check it out on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCU1MHyRFC4

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