By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page turns a reciprocal exchange between two people into a brief vanishing act: they move through ordinary signs of motion, disappear from the physical world for a moment, and return amused by the trick.
The corrected transcript clarifies the poem's small scale and playfulness. Its 'slight of hand' is not just a trick but a way two people momentarily escape conflict and stand alone with the Earth.
Slight of hand, part three — the trick itself. I do this, you don't do that; then I don't do that and you do this. Going between horses and Camaros. A moment's disappearance from the physical, alone with the Earth and a slight of hand, at least amused at whichever way we've gone.