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By Jack Joseph Smith

They made their whispers glow Before a moon that shone so full for they: And now it was okay: the light of his desire where candle, and electric too were there in the house full for heat from tail made known that they could even laugh if it was chosen But they had to go for the wheel again Father thought steel upon steel He found what he wanted to steal with a funnel in seal, Portland, Oct 1910 The wife held back the push to the House

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A handwritten fragment links glowing whispers, moonlight, desire, candle and electric light, domestic space, laughter, steel, and a Portland memory dated October 1910.

The page works through remembered intimacy and movement toward a house. Illumination and desire give way to wheel, steel, and stealing wordplay before the dated Portland scene closes on a wife holding back a push.

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A domestic scene of warmth and quiet intimacy gives way to a journey for a wheel, framed by the father's steely determination and a wife's reluctance to return to the house.

The poem moves from soft interior imagery of candlelight and shared laughter to a harder, more mechanical register of steel and stealing, suggesting a tension between domestic comfort and outward compulsion, with the wife left holding back what the father pushes toward.