April is National Poetry Month. April is also Autism Awareness Month. Many of my fellow poets are taking part in a 30/30 project for the month. Thirty poems in thirty days. I'm going to attempt to do this. At one person's suggestion (Tony Brown) I am going to try and write a series of themed poems. My seven year old son has autism and I'm going to dedicate these poems to my son and all the children and families who live with autism every day.
There may be a few days with a couple of posts this month.
NaPoWriMo Challenge: Poem 1/30
Cables and Wires
He listens closely
Listening is hard when noises bounce through your skull
He makes sounds to comfort himself
Dialogue from television programs or commercials
Songs from school
Songs his Mother taught him
Inside all the oral friction and electricity that happens through him
there is a fine tape recorder
It remembers everything, records perfectly
The playback though, moves too fast, too slow
or not at all
He is not, no he is never silent
Always in motion
Always paying attention and careful where he climbs
He rarely makes a false step
If he slips, you catch him
Because you have to
You are his net, his microphone, his connection
He, is the speaker
there is always a hum coming out of
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