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By Jack Joseph Smith

4a Hé-let hia: arms tip te the pull and suck from the downward’ wind and followed, At mements the clouds ee wel wound’ afore und ereunt! bin: Lia? silver blue fleeces, Tlie sounds: came iin lightly, hunmmed te- the ienity fia hye tuning Wirth He wound aciove thet heavens, tna-dolicate downward ryhne on curve, and it was- lasting ka on sensations ef teaperances , After winding away with ene sheer long song of goynd, the sky: agate opened from this state of silver texture inte the selor creations our lamp 7 aginations: depent en fer lifes A rither sured abselute te continuity Ked'-been breken, He had been vanished to-the- lispe: ef -th=- ought. engaged: to the infinate spectrum, But there now before lilm wene seasons and change, deuention and rule egaing Oowtyasting colors and radii with> . liolding shadew, But outside of 1t, outside these . himges: his: mind saw-az aman, Peering ae bodios:, unte themselves, Net father or mother to light or ; darks were the sterss. . &e Bey, ee 5 The stars epske without speaking, as the awed’ : silent thunder of a huge reck threugh the air, coming te yeur death, Hell-wae-an accident that animal life woul net Tet be taken from theniy , and for thewenmeusnte ef anguish aniizalg and’, .

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The flight opens into stars, change, and a vision of life poised between anguish and cosmic accident.

The page widens from sky-texture into metaphysical distance. What matters is not just upward transport but the discovery that stars, death, and animal life all belong to one enormous unspeaking order.


Claude

Stars rise into view and the journey briefly balances anguish against cosmic accident — the life being lived is fragile enough to have been a near-miss. The page closes the long flight sequence by returning a human-scale feeling to the cosmic scale.