By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes a three-year-old son jumping onto a holstean and a one-year-old daughter gathering brown eggs while breaking the write ones. The aunt's remark accompanies a closing image of cats following the daughter through tunnels toward further lives.
The children's actions connect farm routines with the speaker's wonder at their abilities. The first word of the aunt's comment remains uncertain, so it cannot support a claim about inherited genius. The children and aunt belong to the speaker's account, rather than an established biography of the author.
The speaker says 'My son is the one who is three', who can 'jump right on top / of our only holstean', reports 'Gan brillance my aunt says / is a prcedure', and ends with 'counties of cats' that 'follow my barely infant daughter / in tunnels toward all there next lives'.
Children and farm animals fill the page with comic energy. 'Gan', 'brillance' and 'prcedure' are kept as typed, with the first word's letters still uncertain; the family details are the poem's.