Liminal

Well I have been frantically writing, or rather mostly frantically thinking about writing as I have 4 chapters to write for a co-edited book that is rather overdue. So there I was writing a neat paragraph or two when it turned into poetry. I doubt if I will or can include the poem in the book but it fits here. When I told Liz about it she said 'Liminal' which gave me the title and the final line:

Liminal

I refuse to be defined
As researcher or a practitioner
As a writer or
As an academic or
As middle class or
As white or
As religious or secular
As a healer or a therapist
As gay or straight.

I don't want to be defined
or boxed in
or shut out
Talk to me
Listen to me
Let us be
together
apart
human.

I want to be liminal!