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Even in fragmentary form, 'Right in the Middle' gestures toward crossing, seeing, shared position, and a thousand-year scale.

Because the handwriting remains partial, the surviving phrases carry disproportionate weight. The page seems to place a difficult act of seeing inside an enlarged, almost mythic middle.

This reading remains provisional because the page transcript is partial/OCR-uncertain. The surviving fragment of 'Right in the Middle' yokes the body and the cross ('dig, climb the cross') to an act of seeing 'both / Ways,' staging the collection's title-tension as a literal standing in the middle measured against 'A thousand years.'