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from "A Poem Is a Meaning: Neurodivergent Craft"
By Nathan Bauer & Natalie Martell
Published September, 2025 in Microcosm Publishing's Neurodivergent Pride #15 

What is a story about? A theme, and you do a creation on a blank paper. You draw it in your imagination, of a bird in the nature, and then you think about that. You draw it out—it comes out flying in the sky, flying and ending on their home. Image is like your attitude, claiming yourself, calming yourself down and do what you want to do. Means to me to read a good story to calm me down to relax me a bit because I don’t want to give my anxiety attack to anyone out there.

A poem is a meaning, mean to you like what you’re saying to a poem. The poem is to make it sweet, to make it beautiful sunlight, make it air fresher, make it beautiful color in your life in your beauty. In the life and the beautiness in the crystal sky. Making my writing perfect, more stylish, and getting every writing done. Make it nice in clarity and order. If you goof up, you can go over what you made a mistake, if you want to do that. The point is, writing is flight in the sky. It’s hard to soar. Make the writing unique.

As a flower,
violets are red,
purples are purple,
a purple lilac.
I wish the yellow
or light cloud
over your eye,
who sees a light
texture of blue
in the water
and the ocean
like you.

Where there once was a blank page, now there is sweetness, drawn from the sky and crafted into language. Words and images plunge us into new ways of seeing, from the “light cloud / over your eye” to the “texture of blue.” Awe and connection to beauty become palpable, birds overhead.

Neurodiverse literature is a force for interconnectedness. In Teazu Juah’s “Things Are Freedom,” imagery and tangible descriptions plunge the reader into new ways worldmaking: “Things can be poetry from the sea and the freedom. Children can be at the garden and part of the sea. Some things are not real life.” The divergence in these authors’ words is a gift.

With the disabilities right now, we need to help them write a story and publish their book. Has difficulties to help them write a book, but they need to learn about their writing and if they need some help, the teachers can help them to write it, or we can help them to write it. We cannot hurt disabilities as difficult, to make it safe, to protect yourself for the world. 

More power to be brave as disabilities. We need more writers out there to write a poem and publish a book. The poem is who you are, like Emily Dickinson, like you are the one in love or the one in your heart to be the loved one. Yellow are daisies, it’s gorgeous up there, make a beautiful nature, it smell to grow in a garden, lovebirds song. To think about the bird and a crown and become as a princess and be a crown bird. Emily Dickinson is my favorite poet and she has more leadership, more tact, more power, and more passionate what she does. Flexible and beautiness. 

Any conversation is incomplete without contributions from writers of all different identities and abilities. One Dickinson poem begins, “This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me – .” As we strive for literary inclusivity, advocating for and celebrating neurodivergent authors accelerates the broader movement toward meaningful inclusion and justice.

In the words of Cow Tipping author Brad Kellar, “Hunger would be creation.” We should be hungry for these literary works. For their insight and value. For the power they have to catalyze our collective thinking toward a boundless and more vibrant approach to creative expression. Amplifying neurodivergent writers not only invigorates the literary landscape, it enriches our society as a whole.

To publish the book, make you proud and make you sweet because you know who exactly did that book that’s published. You get done, and that is the page of your writing you did for yourself. And then you go out and read the page of your writing and you say to your family, to your friends, and also you can have the whole family and all your friends together at the reading.

With the Cow Tipping Press, our purpose is to be exciting news. Our purpose is to be exciting to you guys, we do the fun things that we can do this year. Making kind better the world, make it better in the nature, to make it perfect who we are. I speak out what I have to say. Be brave what you want.