The Sexual Six

By Jack Joseph Smith

Two boys and a girl Two girls and a boy Spring blossoms not too high on fruit trees A hidden medow strips speech from gone wine Each will release their bodies three times with no thought to nourish Resting for power through the silk breeze like the sent of compeating flower colors will not answer to destany While controling portions of time the skin from acting and watching is taut with turning and cleaver sighs The signs given with the lips and eyes, if not delicate with the rolling and the roar may seperate the angels Careful touch has let the making of motion be between while tongues have the chance to murmur he and she Down with daring in the light of dark Up with the blindness of stars in the day It is the sense of we that folds the twelve arms Side by side like a Hindu heaven

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker describes six participants in two groups of three amid spring fruit-tree blossoms and a hidden medow. They act and watch, exchange signs through lips and eyes, and fold twelve arms side by side like a Hindu heaven.

The speaker places sighs, signs and careful touch beside the risk that signs may seperate the angels. The poem leaves the participants' ages and identities unstated.

Claude

The poem describes 'Two boys and a girl / Two girls and a boy' in spring, 'taut with turning and cleaver sighs', and ends 'It is the sense of we that folds the twelve arms / Side by side like a Hindu heaven'.

Group intimacy is rendered through sensory images and a closing figure of many arms. 'medow', 'sent', 'compeating', 'destany', 'controling' and 'seperate' are typed spellings.