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By Jack Joseph Smith

Frightened Across the cobblestone Across the sandstone Across the sand itself Into the sea Your ankles have not sunk I would definately be looking back Just the way he did

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

Moving from cobblestone to sandstone to sand and sea, the poem tracks a frightened crossing where the real drama lies in whether one keeps going or looks back.

The page works through motion and hesitation. The preserved spelling 'definately' keeps the typed source's texture while the restored line makes the backward glance feel deliberate.

Claude

Frightened as movement poem. Cobblestone, sandstone, sand itself, into the sea — ankles have not sunk. The last beat is the glance backward, the way he did it.