By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
"The smile knocked & cocked" imagines closeness as skin over skin, then turns toward a cry for shared salvation before both figures dive away.
The handwritten heading makes the page's intimacy feel sudden and physical before the typed body begins layering skin over skin. This is one of the clearer Eninco pages, and it keeps closeness and rescue together. The scene immediately widens into mountain, sea, and a plural prayer for souls. The last movement matters: even after the cry, both are still diving away.
Under the handwritten heading 'The smile knocked & / cocked,' closeness is imagined as substance over substance - 'It would be skin grows over skin / For other souls than mine' - while two figures stand 'so close / And so still,' 'Actually inverted / im the same mountain / that sees you rise out of the sea.' The held stillness breaks into a cry: 'And for the first time Eninco / I scream / Para salvar nuestras almas,' the Spanish carrying the prayer English withholds, before the close 'To dive away as well' keeps both still in motion even after the plea.