“Sick Motion” by Rebecca Wood
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Sick Motion” by Rebecca Wood.
Sick Motion
By Rebecca Wood
I am responsible for my rebellious body
progressively ill body
imagined capacity future
breaks deviates warps
disturbs the current
tide rising reality of
impermanence.
fragility.
interdependence.
flicker shift flow
sway waver organize
reorganize.
rest.
pause.
continue connect collect delight
in assumption destruction
pull pour flood fluid variability
both loss and possibility
not sink or swim
my rebellious body floats.
Copyright ยฉ Rebecca Wood
Rebecca Wood (she/her) lives with her plants and craft supplies in Toronto, Canada. She delights in writing as a playful exploration of being human and what it means to exist in a body with multiple chronic illnesses and episodic disability. Her work can be found in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, Corporeal, Pinhole Poetry, Feels Zine and Poetry Pause. Her debut collection MULTIMORBID was published by kith books in May 2026.
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