Dorla Moorehouse
Dorla Moorehoue is a freelance writer, dancer, and bookstore employee living in Austin, Texas. Her work has previously appeared at Bolts of Silk and Black Heart Magazine, and is forthcoming at Gloom Cupboard. You can read her poetry and prose at http://dorlamoorehouse.blogspot.com.
If I went deaf-
went down to four senses-
Imagine
all the ways you
could make yourself heard-
transcend the limits
of speech and sign
To make up for those
lost whispers you would
finally learn to write poetry
And whenever the occasion
called for more than
your chickenscratch on
yellow notebook paper you would
Hand me sestinas
and blank verse
And when you wanted
your words to make
my body tremble again you would
take out your quill
and ink
your stanzas on my skin
© Copyright 2009 Dorla Moorehouse