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The page links writing, song, stream, and leaf into a short meditation on perception: the speaker notices beauty or identity only as it disappears from him.

The corrected transcript makes the poem much cleaner while preserving the source's odd spellings. Its movement is simple and elegiac: writing is song, listening requires a stream, and the leaf matters only once it goes under. The line And I am non:of what I see makes the speaker's relation to vision feel estranged, so the final disappearance is both external and self-directed.

An untitled elegiac credo where attention only finds beauty as it vanishes: 'I did not wright one second thay / was not a song', 'I never listened unless it was / a stream', 'I never cared about a leaf / until it went under.' The estranging line 'And I am non:of what I see' detaches the speaker from his own perception, so the closing - 'Bfief and shinning / They just went away from me' (spellings preserved) - reads as loss that is both external and self-inflicted.