By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The fragment asks for bodily closeness with a woman whose spirit belongs to a larger, mythic power.
Though brief, the lines press together erotic desire and grandeur very tightly, moving from a kiss across the thigh to a throne-like spirit spinning into a mythological birthright. The woman is imagined as more than any social role like "gypsy" or "queen," because her capacity for love is figured as a wind moving through everyone. The fragment feels unfinished, but its central gesture is clear: intimate contact is desired in the presence of something immense and untouchable.
A continuation fragment of the goddess-address: a wish for 'the kiss of this Earth across your thigh' while the beloved's spirit spins toward a 'mad mythological and incestural kingdom / of your birthright'.
The page yokes intimate request to cosmic scale -- the body's kiss against a 'throne of your spirit' that is already spinning away. It climbs out of every social category, 'greater than gypsy; greater than queen,' refusing to settle her into a role. The resolving image makes her erotic force communal: 'a magnificent wind swirling / your endless possibility for love / through all of us,' so desire is redistributed rather than possessed. Source spelling 'incestural' is kept as written.