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By Jack Joseph Smith
STAYING AS
CLOSE AS
YOU
GET
To the bowels
of the
Earth
Pittsburgh
c/o
West Virginia
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
A sparse place-poem links bodily nearness, earth, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia.
The poem turns geography into a visceral measure of closeness. The vertical spacing makes the descent from 'YOU' to the bowels of the earth feel literal, while the Pittsburgh and West Virginia closing lines ground the abstraction in regional terrain.