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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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Blind returns as a love poem of delay and invisibility, where dead stars, happenstance loss, shared dreams, touch, several heavens, and a handwritten I-WALKED OUT ONE SECOND beyond the stars keep two people mysteriously joined.
The stalled phone call gives the opening a small, ordinary frustration before the poem leaps outward into star death and renewal, now shadowed by the handwritten HAPINSTENCE / Lost note. Love is defined less as romance than as sharing a dream and a day-to-day thought, which makes union mental before it becomes physical. The lower handwritten coda extends the page past the typed ending into cosmic distance.
'Blind' opens on ordinary frustration, being 'stoped,. don't know how to make a call / in less than ten minutes,' then leaps into cosmic logic: 'two negatives make a positive / when: two stars die / to make another one,' alongside 'HAPINSTENCE / Lost.' Even without contact, the poem insists that connection persists through a shared dream and day-to-day thought. Touch and a shared cosmology reinforce the bond through 'four or five / heavens' that help people 'who are two in the same,' before the all-caps coda 'I-WALKED OUT ONE SECOND / BEYOND THE STARS' pushes the love story into cosmic scale.