By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes a woman falling like dust from a rainbow, then recalls her presence at its curve and her burial.
The writer replaces we with she and our with her, making the falling figure a woman. The speaker values her experience despite the absence of gold. The final buryed retains the manuscript's unusual spelling.
In 'Fay Earth' the speaker places a woman 'Somewhere in the / Middle of the / Rainbow', where 'she fell like dust, / And it was not gold;' yet 'she had seen it - / Standing at the curve;'. The page closes on the claim that in 'her partical / falling, / she could not of been better / buryed'.
The draft repeatedly strikes 'we' and 'our' and writes 'she' and 'her' above them, turning a shared experience into an elegy for one woman. The rainbow without gold becomes a place of adventure rather than disappointment, and the burial is framed as fitting rather than tragic. Short stepped lines and dashes give the page a halting, spoken rhythm.