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By Jack Joseph Smith

rs 560m 5 the braih se é hs , Ao SOON 4sthe Eyes o pk . Writing Children are ancient, luerogeyphic speaking and seeing, let them make that word Up im the morning saying your name, and looking ae 0454 Live, OUF & sort ofy while hopefully seeing windows go by. : The child makes an inscriptisiom, the letter belongs to the child, and the child loves the letter for it Secretly, these letters move as they grow, and the child understands that the symbols feel this wonder as well Two im time make one thing appear is everything about immaginatiom; whistle, sing, spit, and drop Over and edge; all good poetry for a toddler What the heck, an unknowr world for am infant as well | 5 (2/2 q U p Definately we can get alone with the silence Before gu after may become meme enaaine | Ther that's the risk: we should know, writimg is about:

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Children are imagined as the first makers of language, turning letters, naming, and play into a theory of poetry rooted in infancy and wonder.

Claude

The poem places the child before the poet — letters belong to children first, and writing begins not with knowledge but with the morning act of saying a name. Poetry is inheritance running backward, from infant to adult.