Tall Ideas
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.