Review of Costa Rican poet Pablo Saborio’s poem ‘Bridge’

Review of Costa Rican poet Pablo Saborio’s poem ‘Bridge’ I request readers to read the poem first from the link https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bridge-18/ and my review next. Thanks. Pablo Saborio is an artist too. We get to see his paintings in his website pablosaborio.com. When a poem is too abstract the reader looks for a key word or expression that opens up an entry into the layers of the poem. The following stanza is the key: --------- It was a particularly indecent display of profundity, being a nude example of universe. -------- An artist immersed in the world of creativity is alien to the thoroughly researched theories and practices of the materialistic world for millenniums. The last stanza also makes it clear that the ways of the materialistic world are confusing leaving nothing for the poet to relate to. The ‘profundity’ is materialistic norms and games. The metaphor of a lake in the first stanza symbolizes the innate darkness in the commercial part of human life which eats away the prime years of a person. The following stanza confirms that the poet is pointing the materialist world: -------- The days where speed makes a string uncoiling in a vacuum enveloped by place. --------- Opportunities and seizing them in the materialistic world is all about the swiftness needed in a person, the moment he finds the right place for reaping the right benefits. The game never stops, nor ends. And there is so much of a turbulence: ---------- It was a patch of tense turbulent essence, emerging from the common ripples. ---------- Where is the bridge? Is it the bridge that connects the poet and the world out there? But is not the poem talking about the missing bridge? Whenever a poem initially is a hard-nut-to-crack we find the abstractness of the theme is the reason. This poem depicts abstract as it is and never attempts to weave in anything linear.