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.
Closing stanza of the 'Deborah In July' address: a wish for the kiss of Earth across the addressee's thigh, her sign as magnificent swirling wind.
The page handles its erotics as cosmology — the wind of the addressee moves through 'all of us'. 'Greater than gypsy, greater than queen' uses two outsider-idioms to climb past category entirely. The poem refuses the standard love-poem frame by making the beloved a shared climate.