By Jack Joseph Smith
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Green, mist, and the certainty of landscape hold their ground against thought's attempt to overtake them.
The page compresses perception into a single backward glance: green, deepness, thought, sureness, image, mist, reality, and life all meet in one brief act of looking.
An untitled six-line fragment that compresses perception into a single backward glance. 'This green once stood out so clear' as 'a deepness / traveled by thought could never gain on its / sureness,' its 'image first glinting across the / mist.' The close fuses making and being with one reciprocal look: 'the making of reality, the being of one, / the quick of one look when all life looks / back.' The brevity is the argument - the green's sureness outruns thought and needs no elaboration.