Well done, @calluna. As a poet I, too, believe that "a poem is not just the words you see/ They're only part of what the poem could be"
Here's an echo from a tiny poem of mine, featured on NPR:
Bodies are like poems.
A fraction of their power
resides in their skin.
The rest belongs
to the spirit
that swims through.
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/19/150960150/egyptian-american-poet-bodies-are-like-poems
Oh I love that!! It is hard to express how much a poem takes from the person reading it but I am glad you liked it! You most certainly have a way with words yourself!
Thank you, @calluna :) Reading is a collaborative art - a good reader enriches the work and might even illuminate it for the so-called ‘author’! Mystery upon mystery...