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By Jack Joseph Smith

would blush and come closer to me. Though I could feel her hair touch my cheek, my dreams remained for her. I never had intentions; we were flowers in our growth. Her eyes were so relieved to see me come home. The world was walking with her, when everything was quiet. She believed it would always be that way. When did wildness curse the soul and punish peace? My thoughts are ending and Kennedy forest looks so blue after rising from the night. My mind is blank and so I am going to pick up this stone and try and reach the trees in the valley.

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The remembered girl blushes and comes close in a peace that once seemed permanent, but the reverie ends with Kennedy forest turning blue after night and the narrator, emptied of thought, picking up a stone to throw toward the trees in the valley.

The seven-line passage remembers innocence just as the speaker recognizes it could not last. The final intention to throw a stone feels like a small, frustrated act against distance, quiet, and the punishment that wildness has brought.

Claude

The remembered girl 'would blush and come closer', her eyes 'so relieved to see me come home', believing 'it would always be that way'; the narrator asks 'When did wildness curse the soul and punish peace?' and, with Kennedy forest looking 'so blue after rising from the night', decides to pick up a stone and 'try and reach the trees in the valley'.

The short page closes the dawn reverie on innocence that could not last, 'we were flowers in our growth'. The blank mind and the thrown stone make a small, physical ending to all the lyric reaching, an attempt to touch distance with the only gesture left.