By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Green, mist, and the certainty of landscape hold their ground against thought's attempt to overtake them.
The speaker remembers green glinting across mist and connects perception with the making of reality. He ends with a look met by "all life" looking back, suggesting reciprocal attention.
An untitled six-line typed fragment: 'This green once stood out so clear, a deepness / traveled by thought could never gain on its / sureness, its image first glinting across the / mist'. It ends by joining 'the making of reality, the being of one, / the quick of one look when all life looks / back'.
The passage sets a remembered green against the slower work of thought, which can never catch up with what was seen at once. Its single long sentence, broken across lines and ending on the isolated word 'back', enacts the returning look it describes. The handwritten change from 'reality' to 'image first' shifts the emphasis from what is real to what is first perceived.