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By Jack Joseph Smith

Fragile f OUBYr ae (2 W353 c Ald wild sep5 On the bottom she worries Om the top she wonders Either side of the street,, she is looking twice The wind is her And she gets eLE fF A EZ o £ for making her change She knows that she will never know why always she will feel like some beautifyl animal She says gee wize I get to guess all the time because everything is a vision As wound up as you can get She knows ee she Kove ror] CE It is just as a women it is only natural For gvegth lA G re hopy At thiz Lat Wraote

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GPT

"Fragile" imagines a woman suspended between worry and wonder, repeatedly crossing the street of vision while the wind keeps remaking her into something instinctive and unknowable.

She is divided not into good and bad but into upper and lower modes of attention, each equally unsettled. Calling herself a beautiful animal gives the poem both tenderness and fatalism, as if she understands herself most clearly through instinct. The final claim that this is natural reads as both resignation and a stubborn acceptance of female intensity.

Claude

Fragile: on the bottom she worries, on the top she wonders. The wind is her. She feels like some beautiful animal; everything is a vision.