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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, and touch all working to keep 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. 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" keep the union larger than the body alone.
'Blind': stuck unable to make a call in ten minutes; two negatives make a positive 'when two stars die / to make another one.' Invisible love, day-to-day thought, and four or five heavens that help 'people who are two in the same.'