the unsayable, by annie g. rogers, ph.d.
Sunday, November 30th, 2014
Trauma is bigger than expertise of any sort – it’s in our midst, in our language, our wars, even the ways we try to love, repeating, repeating. No one is an expert on trauma.
To read is to be drawn away from the confines of the body and the present moment into another time and place.
The poet Audre Lorde tells us that “poetry is the way we give name to the nameless so that it can be thought.”