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By Jack Joseph Smith

Sleep To invoke a dream,, slight at first She is there, asking you how you can stay Little and young, and questioning Beautiful yet careful she grows Then stops and runs, changes and labores Right of a distance you want And there she is back Saying you can't have me now Until we once more change and do do away with age again Time took me out of that beauty But I am telling you, I remember what she said

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

A dream of a woman who appears, withdraws, and returns becomes a meditation on time, desire, and remembered speech.

The speaker treats the dream as both visitation and loss: the woman appears in youth and beauty, retreats under the condition of further change, and leaves only remembered speech after time has removed the original immediacy.

Claude

The woman who appears, withdraws, and returns creates a rhythm the speaker cannot control. Desire and time fold into remembered speech, making the dream feel more binding than waking life.