Thank You Neil Marcus

Disability activist and poet Neil Marcus writes:

“How can I speak of cripple and not mention the wind.
How can I speak of crippled and not mention the heart.
Heart, wind, song, flower, space, time, love. To leave
these absent is to leave cripple in stark terms.
As if we were made of medical parts and not flesh and bone.

There is always wind in my cripple….

Cripple is not extraordinary or ordinary.
Cripple is a full plate….”

I was thinking of Neil’s lines this morning–in fact I was talking to myself like one of the old savants of Lapland and I felt gratitude that Neil had written these lines.  

So I’m sharing my gratitude! Thank you Neil Marcus! 

Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University View all posts by stevekuusisto