The eager clattering singing wastes my listening
and I am over
ready to run breathing the ways the
sticks invite my wanting
I want to think in feeling ways the talking thinks
in moving ways the sticks invite
thinking answering their questions
the eager clattering singing does
always interrupt the sailing play
the play is the questions the sailing
is the tears I know the tears
will overfill ready to become
a thinking and feeling I am
ready to become a loving man
From The Wanting Way (Milkweed Editions, 2022) by Adam Wolfond. Copyright © 2022 by Adam Wolfond. Reprinted with the permission of the Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Milkweed Editions, milkweed.org