Betweener: A Bricolage Poem

Abstract

Inspired by Diversi & Moreira’s Betweener Talk and Betweener Autoethnographies, I employ poetic inquiry to sketch a nonessentialist position for research in the spaces between. My poetry is archival and it is poem-ish. Using repetition, I attempt to break through binary thinking, while simultaneously illustrating the difficulty in doing so. I seek possibility and potential in the twilit space of both/and rather than either/or. In-between spaces can be precarious, a source of uncertainty and fear, yet hope can also be found there.