By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Second to second difficulty reveals Sue as someone beyond timetables and reasons, instinctively holding right and wrong together because mind and body move as one.
The poem treats ordinary chronology as inadequate, reducing timetables to something as fragile and arbitrary as picking flowers. Saying that anything is the same as nothing to her does not flatten the world; it marks a refusal to pretend that particular reasons are final. Her real coherence comes from the last line, where mind and body are said to be fantastically the same.
The Sue sequence turns inward to how she lives in time: 'Second to second is difficult,' and until she arrives 'Everything else / is just everything else.' Schedules shrink to a casual gesture - 'Timetables like picking / flowers' - because 'anything is the same / as nothing to her' and she has 'never seen / any particular reason.' Holding her 'instinctively / right and wrong as one,' the speaker ends on his own appraisal: 'her mind and body, / are fantastically the same,' praising an undivided being where thought and body do not split.