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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A sliver moon, semester walk, unremembered dream, and Catholic invocation come together in a page about youth moving between motion, ritual, and uncertainty.
The corrected text keeps the misspellings and invocation intact while making the page's movement clearer: the speaker is young enough to be carried before understanding what carries him.
A continuation of the 'Chandelier' walk, 'tuging under a new Moon, / The sliver kind, / that takes you back and forth.' Motion without comfort -- 'Not cradel, to fast for that' -- and a youth 'too young to have no / rememberance of a dream.' The lone 'walk in a semester' resolves into the sign of the cross, 'In the name of the Fater / and rhw Son and the Holy / Ghost,' the misspellings ('Fater,' 'rhw') preserved.