By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This revised muskrat page pushes the animal image toward judgment and reckoning, giving the creature a heavier sense of pressure and intention.
The restored lines make the page more active than observational. Instead of merely seeing, the muskrat now arrives amid pounding, purpose, and the doing of the calves, which makes the whole scene feel more ritualized and ominous.
The muskrat again, extended. Licking his chops with spring water, putting the cousin right into the hole just made for a farm, eyes like Einstein. This muskrat had come to see, this muskrat had come to reckon with under the ground. The poem thickens into a second stanza.