Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet and philosopher, studying civilizations, their ideas, and their words, trying to recreate them for us, but in one of his poems I found what we want for our class The Reader Robert Bringhurst Who reads her while she reads? Her eyes slide under the paper, into another world while all we hear of it or see is the slow surf of turning pages. Her mother might not recognize her, soaked to the skin as she is in her own shadow. How could you then? you with your watch and tongue still running, tell me: how much does she lose when she looks up? When she lifts the ladles of her eyes, how much flows back into the book, and how much spills down the walls of the overflowing world? Children, playing alone, will sometimes come back suddenly seeing what it is to be here and their eyes are altered. Hers too. Words She’s never said reshape her lips forever. from Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music, 1986 Let's not be the one with the 'watch and tongue still running.'
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