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By Jack Joseph Smith

For we are the last of loss The close up, we wore the clothes who waited, waiting at the top of the hill, right where 6 years go to tumbling set in our seconds of sorrow, and though again sink into a myth, even more than lovers we were joined the working for divinity, together being the cross at that intersect, our lives fighting to bid favor, bequesting by stars and books, and all good things, never permitting the world to End, for me and those as of us carry love and sight in the mouth of wildness, while we defend our dew.

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page is elegiac and communal, framing love, loss, divinity, and wildness as shared labor at a crossing point.

This is one of the collection's most sustained handwritten lyrics. What holds it together is the sense that sorrow and devotion are not private states but things lived jointly, almost as a burden of vocation.


Claude

One long unbroken stanza about waiting at the top of the hill for six years, lovers joined to 'the working / for divinity,' refusing to permit the world to end while defending 'our dew' — one of the collection's softest pages.