Girl Without A Pearl Earring.
She took them off to sleep.
Or did Vermeer insist
she left them in the realm
of oils and spirits?
Though it’s the same smell
as my mother’s workroom
Vermeer did not paint me.
Please never say, to me,
woman with disabilities.
They are not jewels.
I cannot put them down.
…
Nuala Watt’s poems have appeared on BBC Radio 3 and in anthologies including Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press 2017) and A Year of Scottish Poems (Macmillan 2018)
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What a marvellous poem. No word wasted, it is beautiful and cuts to the bone.
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