An Old Book

[BW BRINE]

The short ones require a leap...something for me to care. What book? (that might help me...maybe in the title if you don't want to add anything to the poem?)  I'm not sure the whole book could be dust. How "could" it open up again?  Dust "on" the book, okay. What's the difference between "read" or "re-read" and why the hyphen?  Too many questions for me...need some direction to help me as a reader.

71degrees

I'm sorry but... how could you think I meant a book made of dust?  Dust on an old book... The book is dusty... It's a metaphor.  She's settling, like dust settles on an old book.

From there, your other questions should be answered.  

Now, the point is to guide the reader into seeing the author - me - as the book.  She's settling on me.  I am the book.  She settles on me, like the dust on the book.  Make sense?

I know poetry is supposed to be clear, but... I didn't think this one was really that abstract.  I know this is in moderate critique, but c'mon... it's like you didn't even read it.

-BW

The critic's read is his own, all we ask here is that the critique be honest and specific. What may be clear to you may be obscure to a reader, you can see their point or not, but please be gracious enough to appreciate the time they took to comment. /mod