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By Jack Joseph Smith

back to the sea-for a young beautiful love. I am as someone who has forgotten everything they were- trying to think about, but it is not yet complete happiness." Crooking up his nose he bends his mouth to the side and beams his eyes out to the breathing green envierment around him. IT IS Kiwi "And if thinking like this is murder to memory; then after all is done, not to be mentioned, the most unusual place to be, could come, To be taken BETWEEN into the beyond the under; I yearn the yearn of never coming back." Letting go, he goes down into grass aside fern and nibbles on buds: Careful and delicate with his nibbling. his form is bent; with his eyes even to the food he has found among the foliage, His body is tight. A tempered human with pulse and energy enough to show: slow motion through the spinning universe. Not SCULPTURE. Slowly he rises With care out of a knowll toward hills rolling from the mountains Suddenly, the red molten past of dawn flashes its first mind-challenge-form, in- his dream as he continues upward: Walking out of a garden to lava or women; His mind burnt red; his soul a rose. He is errect; a wired man in the un- iverse;

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page carries Animal from incomplete happiness and forgetting into bodily foraging, then into motion through the universe, molten dawn, lava, women, and memory.

The page keeps thought embodied through nose, mouth, eyes, buds, pulse, and movement. BETWEEN opens an unstable threshold between beyond and under, while Not / SCULPTURE. rejects stillness before Animal rises into the red pressure of dream, desire, and memory.

Claude

Animal moves through a green environment in a meditative, half-mournful state, weighing memory against forgetting and imagining a passage into the beyond. He descends into grass and undergrowth to nibble buds with careful motion, his tense body cast as a tempered human moving in slow motion through the spinning universe. The page closes on an ascent, with dawn breaking as a mind-challenge-form and his mind and soul rendered through fire and rose imagery.