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By Jack Joseph Smith
played the deps
seeing thoogh herself
As a harpist, sweet yet
solid about to be ready
for floating.
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A harpist plays the deps, sees thoogh herself, and approaches readiness for floating.
The music gives the fragment a concrete activity that the earlier mystic reading missed. Sweetness and solidity describe the player before the last line shifts toward floating.
A five-line handwritten fragment about someone who 'played the deps / seeing thoogh herself / As a harpist, sweet yet / solid about to be ready / for floating.'
The fragment moves from depth to lift: playing 'the deps' and seeing through herself come before the release of 'floating'. 'sweet yet / solid' keeps the harpist grounded, so the ending reads as readiness rather than escape.