Untitled ("Remember the sky your angel")
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker asks someone to remember an angel, skin and trees, recalls a William Faulkner Aunt discussing Marlon Brando, and contrasts being many places with someone who is only at one.
The speaker moves between remembered intimacy and theatrical survival. The references belong to the poem's voice and do not verify a family connection to Faulkner or Brando.
The poem says 'Remember the sky your angel / walked across', 'Remember how skin droped / into your lab', with a raised typed 'only' before 'Would know that we / were real', mentions 'My William Faulkner Aunt' and 'Marlon / Brando', and ends 'but he he is definately only / at one'.
Memory, film and an aunt's remark about improvisation frame a contrast between the speaker being 'many places at the same time' and someone who is only at one. Typed forms such as 'hin', 'droped', 'lab' and 'improvisional' are kept.