"Distracted" is a tiny poem that feels like a mind wandering in three quick steps. It starts with a puzzling pair of lines: "my books / brought home books." The phrasing is playful. Books seem to have followed the speaker home and, somehow, produced more books, as if reading and collecting never quite stop.
Then the senses take over. The speaker's ear is "a witness / to other water," which suggests they are hearing some water, perhaps rain or a stream, that isn't the water in front of them. The poem doesn't say, so we have to imagine it. Finally, "I play orange music / to save my eyes" blends color and sound, and suggests music is a way to rest from reading or screens.
The mood is quiet, dreamy, and a little scattered, but not unhappy. The speaker seems pulled between sight and hearing, and the title makes that drifting feel gentle and almost welcome.