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Mutilated Spirit
Mutilated spirit still breathes in
Moment by moment
Mutilated spirit still breathes out
Event after event.
Every event gets counted within
One and two and three
As the moments pass unstill
Under the mango tree.
--From the poem: "Mutilated Spirit"
by Tito Mukhopadhyay
Copyright C 2006 Portia Iversen
Mutilated Spirit is a passage from the insightful poem "Mutilated Spirit" written by Tito Mukhopadhyay. Read an excerpt of the book Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism by Portia Iversen. Published by Riverhead Books; January 2007;$24.95US/$31.00CAN; 978-1-57322-311-9, Copyright C 2006 Portia Iversen.
Learn more about Tito Mukhopadhyay and his beautifully written poetry, and his desire and journey to help other autistics through autism research. Click here and get the book Strange Son for your home autism books library today.
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