By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes a still mind and calm movement while considering a raven, a nightingale and a swan. Rain falls without mist at the window, and the speaker ends by saying that the sky is near.
The speaker contrasts inner calm with imagined bird movement and weather outside. The handwritten yet and or revisions refine those comparisons; the cancelled maybe no longer qualifies the swan line.
A typed poem: 'It is still / That is my mind is one place / and movement is calm', with no raven and 'yEt It is not like a nightengale / or like a swan', ending after a gap with 'And the sky is near'.
A quiet meditation that defines calm by what is absent; the faint pencil words are omitted.