Even a poem from one of her sister's teachers, a special education teacher. She writes from different family member viewpoints: mother, father, parents, and sisters. In this poem she prays, "Dear God, are they here/to tell us, in a way we cannot ignore,/that we aren't changing/fast enough?" (in italics). She read the first poem in the book, Borderless Country, with the altered number of people born on the autistic spectrum, which has increased from 1 in 150 to 1 in 68, since the poem was written. The poem about the cover art: Possible Self Portrait Kamilah describes her book as a "biomythography in poems" a term that Audre Lorde first used in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. This book is written about her sister, who drew the drawing that is the cover of the book, and who is on the autistic spectrum. Kamilah Aisha Moon traveled to my city to read from her book, so I have heard her read and was moved.
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