Fist Blinking

David Alec Knight — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:11:45 +0000

I am trying to adapt magazine format principles in online posts to present my poems. Some people will understand all or or most of this, or just some of this poem, depending on where they are at.

Fist Blinking
by David Alec Knight

The neurodivergent
struggles to reach.
The neurodivergent
struggles to reach out.
Forget instruction manuals
and the secret scripts
of human relationships.
Hear parliamentary owls
in the evening breeze.

The neurodivergent
struggles to receive.
The neurodivergent
struggles to be received.
Stare at the ceiling
lost to time passing
but ever thankful
the roof doesn’t cave in.

A knock at the door
— Get up! Get up! Get up!
from comfortable couch lock.
There is time enough
to wonder why they
didn’t use the buzzer.
The persistent knocking
reminds of the last migraine
and the one before that.

The neurodivergent
is in the mirror.
The neurodivergent
is in my mirror.
Someone raises the bat,
breaks the mirror,
a shattering like that
of an old window pane.
They pick up the shards
as if mere puzzle pieces,
arranging them in ways
I must refuse.

When they raise
their voices in anger,
I smile in reflex a smile
not under my control.
They raise their volume, but
all I’ve ever known is their fear.
Scripts keep getting revised
and I just can’t keep up with it.

“Fist Blinking” previously appeared as the Cajun Mutt Press Featured Poem for 10/11/2022. Cajun Mutt Press published my second book, LEPER MOSH. “Fist Blinking” will appear in my third book – title and release date soon to be determined.

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To Go

David Alec Knight — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:51:30 +0000

Hi. I speak in paragraphs (and sometimes with footnotes lol) and I tend to post paragraphs as well. You might understand my graphic poem better if you take the time to read on, but I think if you only read the graphic poem I still have reached out successfully. I know we all process information differently and this is why I have been doing more graphic presentations of my poems…

No matter how masked and unaware of myself I was in the beginning, I still nonetheless understood that I processed information differently than others. Limited assessment and funding, as well as less than accurate labelling when there was, during my** formative years didn’t help. But using books, comics, music, movies, and tv as cyphers to decrypt the world around me if you will, to understand it and my place in it helped somewhat. It was never about escapism, which others almost always thought, but about finding myself and finding my way through what seemed like a maze without a map, a role in a play with constant script revisions and no reh**earsal time…

This poem, “To Go” is based on my seeing some of myself in the** fictional character Data in Star Tr**ek: The Next Generation. Because of the character’s popularity I can only assume there are others who felt the same or almost enough, so I reworded it to be about “us” instead of just me. I hope it reaches you. Feel free, to share and re-share as you will…

To Go

by David Alec Knight

You wonder
why it is you relate
to Data and his efforts
to understand what they call
humor and how to laugh
along.

You may wonder
why some women
remind you so much
of the ways Dr. Pulaski
used to treat Data.

You may have lost
your Tasha Yar, or you
may have found her, or you
are yet to find her still.

Go boldly,
where you have to go.

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Fist Blinking

To Go