Page 249
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
"Adem and Eve" restages the rib, Bible, transcendence, lung, species, marriage, family, hand, light and shadow, queening, mind, and caring amid heavy handwritten marginal pressure.
The page now reads as a stable typed poem surrounded by an active revision field. The marginal notes amplify the Greek wrestler and not-done motifs, while the body keeps returning to origin, relationship, and the difficulty of knowing one's own mind.
A tightened third 'Adem and Eve' draft (source spelling), smoothing the rougher page-247 version. 'You know that place, that rib / Mine to be more attractive than his first' opens it, then 'When your dying one is the Bible' compresses the earlier 'both bibles' phrasing. The body moves through 'transcendance / of a lung lost to us a species,' 'the birth in marriage,' the watching 'friends and family,' and the recurring images 'Help is a bow gracious without a hand' and 'glimmering shades between light and shadow,' closing on 'Make me as a queen now' and 'Before the caring.' This typed text is stable, but the page is overlaid with extensive marginal handwriting (legible fragments include 'The Greek,' 'wrestler will,' 'stand up in the sun') feeding the facing Adem and Eve II; that marginalia is only partly transcribed, so its exact wording and placement remain provisional.