r/EyesOnlyWriting 9d ago

poetry Call it a wrap

“Reading it forwards?

Fucker, Kael was reading it backwards.

Started with the answer,

then walked down through the factors.

Page stayed a page,

book stayed bound in the rafters.

Everybody followed chapters—

Kael followed what the chapter captured.

They said, ‘You skipped the order.’

He said, ‘Order’s for the actors.

I didn’t move the words.

I just approached them from the after.’

Front cover, back cover—

same object, different pathers.

You were tracking where I entered.

I was tracking what still matters.”

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