By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Molly is figured through typed lines and handwritten insertions as the clear center of lived experience, someone who outlasts weather, doctrine, and even the imagined ending of the earth.
The page gives Molly cosmic scale without losing intimacy. The handwritten additions make the praise feel immediate, as if the typed poem needed extra force to say what she means. Sun, Moon, rain, interior depth, and the end of earth all become settings for her steadiness, while the rejection of cloisters frames her authority as lived rather than institutional.
'Molly' praises a woman as steady cosmic weather -- 'She is a circle in the sun', 'a circle in the Moon', yet 'clear / when it is rainy too' -- who holds firm even 'after the ends of this earth, / the interior as well'. When pressed to 'Sink your thoughts / As ffar down as you can go', Molly demurs, 'hey; / I don't know / But you know she does', and her authority is lived rather than doctrinal: she 'Riped it up / And gave it up / No religion / From the cloisters', and 'is just the best'.