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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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Diana becomes the most overwhelming beauty the speaker has known, a woman seen across the world and back whose presence exhausts money, direction, hell, and even the language of enough.
This is the most lavish of the Diana poems, letting admiration spill into stars, mountains, bars, and navigation by the Southern Cross and North Star. The speaker wants possession and surrender at the same time, which is why the poem keeps swerving between devotion and fatigue. Looking up to her in the circle bar gives the ending a specific human setting that makes the praise feel earned rather than ornamental.
Diana third pass, book-style: tallness and direct eyes, southern cross and North star, ends in a circle bar knowing she is the best looking woman I have ever seen.