Bad Poems #5

The Luminaries: a series of haikus

I [Aries]

I have just finished

reading The Luminaries

(Eleanor Catton)

II [Taurus]

I do not really

have an opinion. It was

quite good. Mysterious.

III [Gemini]

Didn't really like

the ancient style of writing

Author's presence was

IV [Cancer]

too pronounced. Narrators

should be omnipresent third

person amorphous

V [Leo]

immaterial and

unreal and unacknowledged

or a character.

VI [Virgo]

I didn't like that

it was written like someone

was recording and

VII [Libra]

transcribing. Unseen.

Then rearranging for us.

A fly on the wall.

VIII [Scorpio]

Yet nonexistent.

Anyway. It had a lot

of astrology

IX [Sagittarius]

and constellation

symbolism. I guess if

you analysed it

X [Capricorn]

You'd find some deep stuff.

Elaborately set up.

So much so that the

XI [Aquarius]

ending seemed a bit

like a disappointment. Not

a big reveal but

XII [Pisces]

a gradually

unravelling mystery.

Onto the next one.

Hmm. I just remembered there are a bunch of unresolved questions. Like how was Anna able to read and write on the deed if she... couldn't read and write? Or was she just pretending? That was never made clear. Also, I'm confused about what really happened to Emery Staines. And how could Lydia speak perfect Cantonese? Anyway, that's all really weird, and I'm mad they were just left hanging. I guess the point wasn't the mystery, but more the soul-mate-ness between Anna and Emery Staines. Ughh.