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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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"Blind" argues that love is a shared dream between unseen companions, with dead stars, delayed calling, happenstance loss, touch, and a final walk beyond the stars all keeping two people in the same life.
The opening delay around making a call sets the poem in ordinary frustration before it suddenly leaps to dead stars making another star, now shadowed by the handwritten HAPINSTENCE / Lost note. That cosmic analogy is brought back down to daily life when love is defined as sharing the same dream and the same day-to-day thought. Touch matters because it returns the argument to blood and heartbeat, while the "four or five heavens" and the final walk beyond the stars keep the union larger than the body alone.
'Blind' opens in a stalled, ordinary moment, 'I am stoped, don't know how to make a call / in less than ten minutes,' then widens into a cosmic proposition: 'two negatives make a positive / when two stars die / to make another one,' set beside 'HAPINSTENCE' and 'Lost.' Love is defined not through sight but through shared inner life, 'we know that love is being with another / who has the same dream, and for that matter, / just day to day thought,' with touch valued for 'the blood in your heart.' The poem allows for 'four or five / heavens' that help people 'who are two in the same,' and closes by turning blindness into motion outward, 'I-walked out one second / beyond the STARS.'