GPT
This page returns to infancy, twigs, bark, courage, death, beginnings, and endings to argue that children know something adults meet only at the end.
The scan-reviewed text keeps the page's rough spellings and syntax, which matter to its pressure. The poem imagines the infant as knowing less and more at once: less in worldly terms, but close to the beginning, ending, and death-knowledge that the adult reaches too late.
Claude
Another infancy variant that reworks the same images toward the claim that children already hold death-knowledge. 'There is nothing explicide to know / between two and six,' and even 'the cross / that will cross them' is held off, 'Better in journey.' The familiar figures return - 'The grace of a twig / Up on a hightlimb,' 'Knowledge and courage complete / as instinct raw and guided yet alone,' 'The wind eyes im stretch / as sapling bark.' Its center holds: 'Never does the infant know less / That the adult knows im death,' so 'The middle of life / never lasting through the truth,' and the beginning and ending 'don't re- care.' Source spellings ('explicide,' 'im,' 'don't re- care') are preserved.