By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page reads like an address to Kyle Vincent built out of witness: the speaker names family members, friends, and a way of seeing, then urges a life and practice that leaves nothing unresolved.
It has the feel of a dedication or charge. The scan corrections clarify Jack's certainty and the final command, making attention, work, and bodily discipline the basis of character.
An address to Kyle Vincent founded on the speaker's role as universal witness: 'I am the guy who looks at all of it', cataloguing 'Jonah', 'Adrienne Grace', 'my Mom alone', 'my Father far away', 'the great Stephanie / in the garden', until from that vantage he has 'seen everyone; / all my family'. The poem pivots into a charge in the third person, 'your friend Jack is certain, / that you know your work, / in your mind, your hands, / and your feet', closing on the imperative to 'never leave anything undetermined'. Witness becomes the ground for a blessing about diligence and self-possession.