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By Jack Joseph Smith

Fragile OUR CANYON'S And wild SEAS On the bottom she worries On the top she wonders Either side of the street,, she is looking twice The wind is her And she gets ANGRY -the of for making her change She knows that she will never know why always she will feel like some beautiful animal She says gee wize I get to guess all the time because everything is a vision As wound up as you can get She knows war, she knows ICE It is just as a women it is only natural For Everything to Happen At the LAST minute

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AI Interpretation

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"Fragile" imagines a woman suspended between worry and wonder while handwritten additions turn her landscape into canyons, wild seas, anger, ice, and last-minute happening.

The page moves between typed poise and handwritten interruption. The typed poem frames her as looking twice, guessing all the time, and feeling like a beautiful animal, while the handwriting makes that condition more elemental: canyon, seas, anger, ice, and everything happening at the last minute. The result is less a stable portrait than a nervous weather system.


Claude

Fragile: on the bottom she worries, on the top she wonders. The wind is her. She feels like some beautiful animal; everything is a vision.