On Reading Poems to a Senior Class At South High

This. poem. was. awesome. :D
Honestly, when I first read this poem--picturing the fish swimming around--I totally thought of Dr. Suess. I thought of the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I thought it was great because D.C Berry used such a vivid imagery to describe how these students are "diving" into reading these poems to their class.

"Slowly water began to fill the room
though I did not notice it
till it reached
my ears."

I think this poem shows how people go to a new place when they read poems--just how people say that they travel to new places when they read books. It shows how much people's worlds and paradigmes change when they read them. :)
What I don't understand, though, is who is the person narrating the poem? Is it the author? I assume that it's not a person that attends the class he/she is reading to regularly since he/she mentions: "They went to another class I suppose and I home..."

Well, whatever the case of who the person reading the poem is, it tells of how the students and the person connect through the beauty of poetry. I think that this is super neat considering how no matter what people's backgrounds and thoughts are, they can connect and make the impossible happen through poetry. :)