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By Jack Joseph Smith

It is a continual exploration with birth, standing on your shoulders, shouldered with LEAVES And mother is the lady who does not yawn And a mallberry bush does not put a wifes mind to sewing On the medow marrying young; crushed black and tan and golden too Fire for coal and wood alike We are the only spring Unless these three AS So we leave three other seasons To our rest; for others to judge Yes; and when going out without a work, there is allowed a thought of John Brown, and a home at Harper's Ferry; a continuation of valleys, canyons, plains, and the asphalt from Utah To West Virigian just for your bottling

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page widens into a seasonal and historical meditation, linking marriage, landscape, John Brown, and American geography.

The poem feels like an expansion outward from domestic image to national myth. Leaves, sewing, Harper's Ferry, and the road from Utah to West Virginia all sit in the same frame, giving the page a strange mix of tenderness and historical charge.


Claude

An exploration-with-birth poem that links John Brown, Harper's Ferry, and Utah-to-West-Virginia asphalt into 'just for your bottling' — hillbilly continuity as a bottled good.