By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This second "Gone" sharpens the room into perilous stillness: wind is denied as willow, paper moves, keys hold the eye, and even a slight shift risks falling out of time.
The crossed-out phrase after the willow line makes the page visibly revise itself away from one image and toward the bare fact of paper moving. The poem treats self-consciousness as dangerous, since turning around to watch oneself confirms being in the wrong time. Its final warning gives imagination no easy freedom; it becomes the tense balance required not to fall.
Gone rewritten: the wind is not a willow touched, use your imagination, if you move an inch you will fall.