By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Three dreams cross a pond while ideas gather in whirlpools. The speaker contrasts quiet thought at the top with an explosion in the middle identified with all of us, then declares love.
The speaker moves from a shared pond image to a personal declaration. The cancellation of two removes an explicit count of addressees; the poem gives no basis for assigning the dreams to identified people.
'Liza' describes 'Three dreams crossed in a pond', 'ideas were in wirlpools / Gathered way down / by forces ment to make all things turn', and 'the explosion in the middle / is all of us', ending 'And I love you'.
A compact love poem that sets inner turbulence beneath calm; the cancelled two after the last word is omitted, and lillies, wirlpools and ment are kept as typed.