By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page moves from Van Gogh and blindness into a stripped meditation on perception, ending with crawling earthly things set between the moon and sun.
What survives here is a real concern with seeing and not seeing. Night is taken out of the stars and given back, swimming becomes difficult without depth perception, and the earth is suddenly full of crawling mediators between larger celestial forces. Even fragmentary, the page holds together as a thought about damaged vision.
Van Gogh and blindness: the painter 'swirls for all of us' so the blind speaker becomes 'so meaning so what.' He takes the night out of the stars and gives it back; depth perception only arrives when resting on the earth.