Daniella Fearon

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Sisterhood: Movement and Stillness

I got your
        hyper
link
on Sunday
      first since
The Muse
          aired
for Black
History month
you chose an
apt title
the kind
that invokes
stillness to
consume minutes
of pure motion
I can still re
call
     the day
Mum brought
          that Nikon
how I
posed
        fully
dressed
        in
the bath tub
Ophelia’s
       blue
petals and
white netted
pleats
         bobbing
in long
       shots and
close
        ups
your lens
capturing
facets of
unexposed
fragility
in pages
of pics
     you photo-
shopped
and developed
in that dark
room reels
         reconditioning
notions of
              black
beauty
like in these
         dancers’
box rooms
where you
expose the
power of
non-
conformity
and how
black limbs
can
defy the
limitations
of lockdown
you have
marked the
transition
from still
image to
motion
picture.

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DANIELLA FEARON is a London writer who studied BA English with Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College and MA Poetry at Roehampton. Her poetry explores identity, racial equality and social change. Daniella is a recipient of the 2022 Eric Gregory award.