The Reader - Poem
Humana, Tomás – Lengua Inglesa 1 - COM-4
The reader
Heading slowly
towards the east
Jumping backwards
with just a glimpse
Tessellation of words that travel within a square cell
Its ink spreads throughout the joy
Let the ones go off on tangents
But not ours
for we are the alienated
From time to time
a passage may stutter
Am I the onlooked?
Am I the starter?
Let the prose wander your sight to a curvy fold of light
of comprehension
But it’s the stanza of curiosity that mocks on you
because, as off putting as it may seem
you can do nothing but read
Keep reading me then
Read
Read
Read
I read you too…
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Wow, it’s a really interesting poem! It’s cool to read a poem about the act of reading itself and this sort of interaction that’s always there between the text and the reader (if I’m not mistaken). I like how the poem is, in a way, personified and speaks to us, the readers. One line that stood up for me is “Tessellation of words that travel within a square cell."
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I had to look up what a meta poem is because it’s the first time I’ve heard of that term.
I think this poem is a very original way of expressing the relationship between the poet and the reader. You know how to catch the reader´s attention, and for that reason, I like this part of the poem “But it’s the stanza of curiosity that mocks on you because, as off putting as it may seem you can do nothing but read”
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