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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Between family catastrophe, a tree house on the Oregon coast, and science as discovery and repair, the son grows into someone bent on unfamiliar ground.
Mother and father catastrophe is not background color; it is part of the terrain alongside tree house, family shack, and Oregon cliffs. The page measures the boy's rootedness against the globe, science, and work that needs repair, suggesting a mind and body moving outward from origin. The handwritten revisions around science and the Before/After/YET mission cluster intensify that motion, though the final syntax of the closing lines remains provisional.
Continues. 'Amist mother and father catastophe,' tree-house years on the Oregon coast cliffs, and now the son sees the world with mind and feet; science pushes his art 'as part of the globe / in need of discovery / and repair.'