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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page follows a woman whose attention takes in nature, weather, and terrain before ending with her vision of four suns across the sky while she remains below.
She is defined by perception rather than mastery: nothing in nature escapes her notice, yet gravity and altitude keep setting limits around her. The poem inventories terrains from sand to mountain as if her life had crossed whole climates of belief and hardship. The handwritten change to four suns makes the final image stranger and more expansive, because vision exceeds position even when the body remains down below.
Not a particular of nature's things crossed her view without attention. Snow peddles, full rain, watershed, the tips of belief crossed her mid like every day film. When she saw suns across the sky, she was still down below.