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By Jack Joseph Smith

Where Life Is Wood Spliting oak and cherry for a couple old homes, even elm and madrono with it's sizemik fruit; all sections Sycamore across the continant, the in the valley, or over the ridge; space of sea or clouds, anething I was told directly, or possibly all that was ever mentioned, didn't make any diffwrance, you must know, oe need to understand, that the body is the same with a hammer in it's hands A gypsy on atrain track; way below a lumberjack, a heaver with a splitting mall

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This page makes wood, labor, landscape, and bodily knowledge part of the same rough material identity.

The poem values work not as abstraction but as texture. Trees, hammer, ridge, fruit, and track all become ways of thinking about being made of the world.

Claude

Where Life Is Wood, draft one. Splitting oak and cherry, elm and madrone, sycamore across the continent. The body is the same with a hammer in its hands. A gypsy on a train track way below a lumberjack, a heaver with a splitting maul. The poem locates identity in physical labor.