Page 109
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page reads like a compact index or cluster of titles, linking houses, ships, sacrament, and named figures into a suggestive map of the collection's concerns.
Even as a fragment, it has value. It shows how often the manuscript thinks in constellations of titles before or alongside full poems.
A bare list of four titles - 'The House of Seven Doors / The Hell Ship Trangie / The Body And the Blood of Host / Mister Brad Dexter' - reading like a flyleaf or contents page rather than a poem. It juxtaposes a maritime ordeal ('The Hell Ship Trangie'), a Eucharistic phrase ('The Body And the Blood of Host'), and a specific man's name ('Mister Brad Dexter,' the actor), so the collection gestures at a wider shelf of works and obsessions without elaborating any of them.