By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Two sisters are held in a moment of age difference, bodily feeling, and emotional limit, with the older one finally reaching exhaustion.
The page is quiet but tense. Mist, heart, glaze, and the parenthetical ages make the scene feel both clinical and intimate, as if adolescence and burden are being measured against each other in one fixed instant.
A taut continuation of the bridge scene: the younger sister 'didn't hear anything but mist / creaking', while the older 'felt the child's heart, but her / oldness next to throb filled her eyes with glaze.' Two parentheticals fix the ages - '(Fourteen the younger)' and '(Seventeen the older)' - before the flat closing verdict 'And she had had enough.' The page measures adolescence against unbearable burden in a single held instant; the typewritten text is scan-confirmed accurate.