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By Jack Joseph Smith

7é7 to the ring of, where-is she coming fromeos where: : is she coming fromeoe where ig she-coming from?i}" Aid ori 8 vole r "aoe Sete edd wigan from her having stood up : . swaying, as a~reef with many trees, her bright dress . wrinkling exactly with the-feelings in the thick and lower softness of the Lede “pind, She would not be a . city domesticated mother onan ne, sweet gladness . would danee$ And her head had gone over the modern : desert storm as a shebas “are you seeing the Ark Angel,?" spoke a light man on his feet passingeeco She had been seeing herself as one of a million centers : . on the beach with no purpose or possibility, To Jiven Joe : . whet always was and always will be, All blown with the wind like the song of lives in time perpetually moving in a circle.” ioyese-end trofsigy ners ‘the people of Hart Street : to spend lives of saserae Genes ty visions they were enclosed in. . "T am not ready to sing so softly like that soft wind : lifting her skirts for you," said Joe, He-thenhatgone- { | uiiiae-We8) ff Prom-his—shaeks—Dancingtedy “ On the sixth day the —— girls stood back from her ms a speaking out of the glares "Lady, the men are anxious _ . for yous" F "We are all children of the Godless gods, and the universe is not anxious for us," she had replied, i

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Maria's vision becomes less messianic certainty than cosmic drift, even as the girls and Joe keep trying to give that drift public form and narrative momentum.

This page is full of unstable elevation. Maria is both exalted and diffuse, and Joe's refusal to sing too softly suggests that performance is the only way the crowd knows how to hold such a vision.

Claude

Maria's vision becomes less messianic certainty than cosmic drift, even as the girls and Joe keep tending her. The page holds doubt and care in the same frame.