Literary Degrees - a photo by T Newfields

Literary Degrees


To some degree every text
you read is a mirror
reflecting your mind

In another sense each text
is opaque merely hinting
at an author's design

To some degree readers are
vacuum cleaners scooping up
semantic debris

In another sense they're planters
dispersing precious word-seeds

Literature can be viewed so many ways:
but instead of reading about it
why not open a text
then discover what it has to say?

Jack: (coughing) Hey, whad'z dis old dork sayin'? Kun ya muck any sense ah dis?
Juanita: Some sort ah post-modernist wank I reckon – do ya really wanna understand it?
Jack: (winking mischievously) To some degree. . .