Jealousy

Why We Ask You Not To Touch

Human emotions and cognition
Leave a projective film over the poems
making them difficult to perceive,
Careful readers maintain a measured
distance from the works in order
to allow distortion-free comprehension
and to avoid damaging the meaning.

-Charles Bernstein

Really?
Why can't I touch them?
Why do you ask me to read lightly.
Poetry speaks to me through hidden meaning.
The brilliance of the poem is what lies within.

Now I understand, I did just the opposite and I understand.
I touched, I delved, I watched, I gorged, I found.
You sneaky poets, every move is planned.
The brilliance astounds me.
SOL (smile out loud).
Wow.