Find and share the perfect poems.
Like water I am eager
Like water I am thinking
Like water I always move
Like water I am thinking time
open and following eager going
pathways and open going nowhere
I boat on the way water the way I want to talk
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
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
The way of learning pace
was how I learned to string
words the way language paths
and makes meanings the way
jar of thinking was really
bathing in brine wanting to
for readers to understand
but the management of
language at ABA schools
was demanding speech and
because I couldn’t speak
I was going to the lines of
watchful therapists that tried
the same words over and
over again so I wasn’t
able to express myself
in the ways they thought
I should and that was awful
for me so I want the world
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