#poetry

Broken English

Janet Rogers

November 17, 2017

This piece distorts language in a way that feels simultaneously playful in its musicality, while... This piece distorts language in a way that feels simultaneously playful in its musicality, while also awkward and violent. It's so true to the way language and language barriers fail and frustrate us. We loved listening a couple times in a row, sinking into the jarring cadence of the reader's cropped syllables.