"Tall Ideas" by Adam Wolfond

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are the open way of thinking that use the patterns of the way I motion with language   breathe like the way I amass sometimes air in my insides   carry heavy weight like the having to good ideas write   don't like boy's really moving body of questions that form tower of answers   eagerly want to beat the others   forge toward others   go yonder   hang   impact the wanting words   jump from one thought to the next   kettle like fish   lavish like talking people if they doctor the words   master language openly   navigate words toward meaning   operate the machine landing the thoughts amazing that they don't fall apart   pave the wanting road   question wanting   really ask more questions   slant with peeving typing   tire to something that rolls with the road   use people to answer   vortex the void and assembles gathering words   water thoughts like rain   exit the door of cold raying water other is the way   yesses the yonder     zoning the word and uses the idea to language everything            Copyright © 2019 by Adam Wolfond. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on October 1, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. About This Poem   "Adam Wolfond wrote the poem 'Tall Ideas' at the A Collective, which studies emergent conditions and relations that support neurodiverse expression. Adam's interests are language and thought, the way that neurotypical language tends to delimit expression, and how we privilege the speaking. He asserts that there is a misunderstanding among 'talkers' that non-speaking people are incompetent and unaware." —Estée Klar for Adam Wolfond   Adam Wolfond is a 17-year old non-speaking autistic/neurodiverse artist, poet, and university lecturer. His chapbook In Way of Music Water Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism is forthcoming from Unrestricted Interest in 2019. He lives in Toronto, Canada. Poetry by Wolfond   In Way of Music Water Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism (Unrestricted Interest, 2019) "In the Land of Words" by Eloise Greenfield "Derrida/Coleman" by Taylor Johnson "Presto! How the Universe is Made" by Stephanie Strickland October Guest Editor: Oliver de la Paz   Thanks to Oliver de la Paz, author of five collections of poetry, including The Boy in the Labyrinth (University of Akron Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Paz about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit poets.org   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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