Cally--
I'm really very grateful for your lengthy response to my post on this poem. You've relieved my mind that maybe I'm not just a terrible reader. I think the kaleidoscope metaphor is very helpful here to re-frame what's happening when reading certain kinds of poetry. Of course, I don't think I can stop meaning-making in the presence of textual art. Words have meanings after all, and so we try to make sense of things. But I can certainly sit with ambiguity if that ambiguity is the very meaning intended. I did find many of your lines quite resonant and beautiful and I love the spacing. I think I quite like the poem now that I don't feel the need to understand it.
Thank you so much for your perspective on writing poetry. It opens me.