Dissection
Every book dissected,
every paragraph on every page
scrutinized,
parsed, paused and pondered
on sentence structure
on the writing in the spaces 
between and below 
I saw their flaws
like shooting stars on cloud-free nights,
sparkly like the diamond I gave away,
I saw their flaws and failures bulging 
like a tin of fermented herring;
dissected, dismembered, dismayed 
I deemed them –
geniuses.