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<\/p>\n to understand abstract concepts. Love<\/p>\n should teach me how to teach you. I can\u2019t<\/p>\n find a point of entry into your world, locked<\/p>\n rooms of loud lights, bright sounds that hurt<\/p>\n and excite at the same mind-rocking pace.<\/p>\n Nuances must be memorized, categorized,<\/p>\n using a code no one can crack. I have<\/p>\n come close for the briefest fractions before<\/p>\n falling behind as shapes and boundaries<\/p>\n shift and take flight. I cannot<\/p>\n keep up, fall short, remain firmly rooted<\/p>\n in meanings that mean nothing to you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n April Salzano<\/strong> teaches college writing in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her work has appeared in Poetry Salzburg, Convergence, Ascent Aspirations, The Camel Saloon, Blue Stem, <\/em>and Rattle, <\/em>as well as other online and print journals. She serves as co-editor at Kind of a Hurricane Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Autism This Failure to understand abstract concepts. Love should teach me how to teach you. I can\u2019t find a point of entry into your world, locked rooms of loud lights, bright sounds that hurt and excite at the same mind-rocking pace. Nuances must be memorized, categorized, using a code no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6392,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrom Autism This Failure<\/strong><\/p>\n