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By Jack Joseph Smith

Loss Of The Sun Time an place didn't make a differance The rifle he was pulling had a feeling and it was watching, colors mixed and brushed Yes all of her he saw, even with her trying She just happened to be a Moon on film Police were on their way to kill her anyway Needing to be exqusit with terror and tongue: There as a thread, the quick comfort of violence done Either or Once to begin with no to straw and gold No to the dream called the same It is the rejection of sorrow Tougher than any two strong trees you've seen Exactly on this Earth this movement at the right time, thought good enough, A trick on the way to knowing, and no one is held to it Only death makes God longer against the Sun Housing or shade or Both still alone

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This page treats violent perception as something half personal and half cosmic, with terror, sorrow, and the sun all pulled into the same field.

Even in partial form, the poem has a strong charge. It keeps circling the idea that thought and violence don't just happen in time and place but change what those terms mean.

Claude

Loss of the Sun. Time and place did not make a difference, the rifle he was pulling had a feeling, watching, colors mixed and brushed. All of her he saw, a moon on film. Police were on their way to kill her anyway. Exquisite terror on the tongue, quick comfort of violence done. Housing or shade or both still alone. The book's most cinematic scene.