By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
"Listen For A Second" imagines a peace wider than silence and insists that, even after missed warnings, a person can still think and travel toward it alone.
The page opens by relocating peace from quietness to distance across the star, giving it reach rather than hush. It admits failure without surrendering motion, since the road remains underfoot even after disaster has been seen coming. The closing lines restore self-direction in the smallest possible terms: use your mind, find your own way there.
'Listen For A Second' relocates peace from quiet to distance: 'There is peace / That is not made of silence,' 'Not around, / but across this star.' It admits failure without surrendering motion - 'Maybe we did not try / Even when we saw it coming,' yet the road remains and 'Your still standing on it.' The close restores self-direction in the smallest terms: 'find / something to do with your mind,' and 'find a way to gett / there on your own.'