What Is This?

This piece reminded me that everyone interprets poetry differently, whether they like to see the reflection of themselves in a piece or try to see the writer's idea (ha the irony). The actual meaning is almost always underneath many, many layers, waiting, hungry for someone to come along and show their acknowledgment.

That being said, I liked the transition of "Is it a painting of a soul? / A reflection of the reader's?", the line "unguarded, but yet somehow locked"; it gave my heart a twang. I also like the sounds in line six :)

Oh, on another read, I also got the thought of two people sending letters and hoping the recipient can detect the longing from them.

I felt like this was someone pondering over correspondence - probably due to the recurring letters motif. The idea of the two souls communicating non-coprereally is well demonstrated.

I think you've touched on some other nice topics - non-directive communication, the disaprity between reader and writer, quite well, but I get concerned you lose focus sometimes. I still enjoyed this, but maybe something to take in to account :)

Really enjoyed your word choice