{"id":259,"date":"2011-05-19T10:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T10:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:26:32","slug":"brandon-wint","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/spoken-word\/brandon-wint","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Wint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poetry in Motion<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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My favourite poems are the ones that tell stories\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand everybody has a story worthy of being told.<\/p>\n

So do I.<\/p>\n

It begins with the question do you believe in destiny?<\/em><\/p>\n

Because everything about my manner of being alive shows me that I was born<\/p>\n

For the purpose of writing certain stories, and re-writing others.<\/p>\n

Maybe this moment is the actualization of a life-long poem<\/p>\n

Written by the universe in the space between the sun and the clouds<\/p>\n

For which my earthly name is the undersigned<\/p>\n

For there are signs<\/p>\n

written in every moment of my life<\/p>\n

that have brought me to this place in time.<\/p>\n

I am a poet<\/p>\n

And do they not so often say of life and destiny<\/p>\n

that it is written?<\/p>\n

So maybe we who write the stories of our lives on paper<\/p>\n

and configure the future through their telling<\/p>\n

are with every line, walking the thin line<\/p>\n

Between humanity and purely expressed divinity.<\/p>\n

But I know I am a poet not because of the aptness of any word<\/p>\n

That has ever leapt from my tongue<\/p>\n

But because if there is a story in everybody<\/p>\n

a story in everybody<\/p>\n

a story<\/p>\n

in every<\/p>\n

body<\/p>\n

And true poetry can be found in motion<\/p>\n

Then you need only listen<\/p>\n

To my body language.<\/p>\n

I was a poet long before I could ever pronounce the words that would define my life.<\/p>\n

Words like different<\/em><\/p>\n

Words like disability<\/em><\/p>\n

Words like cerebral palsy<\/em><\/p>\n

So listen<\/p>\n

The only poem the universe has ever wished for me to write or understand<\/p>\n

Is one that looks and sounds like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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