By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes taking the mind out through abstraction, returning to examine it and choosing a speck in darkness over a spread of scapes in the night.
The speaker measures thought against the body's reach and asks where he stands while engaging it. The corrected night remains a provisional handwritten revision; the page gives a fragmentary account of attention rather than a defined theory of time.
'Seconds and Years' describes how 'The inside of abstraction / Takes my mind out as far / as my body can let it', and contrasts 'That speck int the dark' with 'the spread of scapes / in the night', ending 'Where am I / Engageing it'.
A meditation on thought and distance. The word night is a hand correction over typed light and stays provisional; int, scapes and Engageing are kept.