Time Cleaves Itself Derk Wynand face up to her own

face up to her own mortality

that puts our lives on the map too

but now it is spent

class and power

Your name is beautiful for young girls born in July

Time Cleaves Itself Derk Wynand face up to her ownIn Jeda Pearls debut poetry collection, Time Cleaves Itself, a disabled Scottish woman of colour invites you into the split and rewoven threads of her intersecting, in between worlds as she navigates belonging and claiming space. Landscapes and bodyscapes are brought into focus through lenses of race, illness, disability and womanhood. Ancestral languages of Scots, Patois, Geordie and English critique ableism, colonialism and Scottish exceptionalism;