Disability Studies Quarterly
Fall 2005, Volume 25, No. 4
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Copyright 2005 by the Society
for Disability Studies
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My hands are cramped
from pushing your wheelchair
on the Wildwood boardwalk
without my white cane.
Your talk guides me
over vibrating grooves
through a sea of late-season tourists
that parts for your "forward,
left, right, clear"
and "oh-shit-stop."
I stop better than I steer,
but we need this risk,
you looking up to say where we go,
me listening to push or hold back.
The shopkeepers know
we will buy souvenirs-
A heart-shaped cherry box
with one unsanded inner corner,
seashell wind chimes,
soapstone dinosaurs,
half-price Peruvian sweaters,
statues of pilgrims.
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