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By Jack Joseph Smith

back to the sea-for a young beautiful love. I am as someone who has forgotten everything they were- trying to think about, but it is not yet complete happiness." Crooking up his nose he bends his mouth to the side and beams his eyes out to the breathing green envierment around him. It is Kiwi "And if thinking like this is murder to memory; then after all is done, not to be mentioned, the most unusual place to be, could come, To be taken into the beyond the under; I yearn the yearn of never coming back." Letting go, he goes down into grass aside fern and nibbles on buds: Careful and delicate with his nibbling. his form is bent; with his eyes even to the food he has found among the foliage, His body is tight. A tempered human with pulse and energy enough to show: slow motion through the spinning universe. Not sculpture. Slowly he rises With care out of a knowll toward hills rolling from the mountains Suddenly, the red molten past of dawn flashes its first mind-challenge-form, in- his dream as he continues upward: Walking out of a garden to lava or women; His mind burnt red; his soul a rose. He is errect; a wired man in the un- iverse; the course.

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page carries Animal from incomplete happiness and forgetting into bodily foraging, then into a corrected vision of motion, lava, women, and the red pressure of memory.

The page keeps thought embodied: nose, mouth, eyes, buds, pulse, and motion become the way consciousness returns after forgetting. The handwritten edits sharpen the passage away from static sculpture and toward movement through the spinning universe, while the lower lines turn that movement into a molten, dreamlike confrontation with memory and desire.

Claude

A short page carrying Animal from amnesia toward bodily foraging — bending to nibble buds among fern, eyes fixed on the food, tight as a tempered human. The image of the wired erect figure moving through a garden of lava and women is interrupted by dense marginal notation, keeping the composition visibly unfinished.