By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This short lyric condenses women into figures of wildness, wishes, truthfulness, and force carried briefly across the universe.
The stripped-down phrasing makes the page sound almost ceremonial, as if each line were a separate vow or witness statement. Women here are not symbols of comfort; they are wild, wish-bearing, and bound to truth. The closing comparison of thrust is intimate and forceful because it brings cosmic language back down to a direct human address.
A stripped, almost ceremonial reworking of the 'Her Loss of Touch' material, each short line landing like a separate vow: 'Across what was know / of the sea / In a kingdom' (with the handwritten insertion 'Aid') 'Or squalzer / I have seen / Women wild / And with wishes.' The women are bound to truth 'No matter what,' taking 'their / finger very shortly / across the universe,' and the cosmic register snaps back to direct address in the close - 'I thrust tham / as I thrust you:' - intimate and forceful at once.