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`FAY EARTH` places a falling woman inside a rainbow where dust replaces gold, yet having been there and seen its curve makes her particular burial complete rather than diminished.

The poem turns the failed promise of gold into the value of witness. Its isolated `She`, emphatic mixed capitals, and closing `could not of BEEN BETTER / buried` make descent and burial feel like the final shape of an adventure rather than a negation of it.

'FAY EARTH' is a stepped, breath-spaced elegy that keeps isolating the pronoun 'She': placed 'Somewhere in the / Middle of the / Rainbow', she 'FEll LiKE dust' where 'it was not gold', yet 'she had BEEN / there' and 'had SEEN it - / Standing At the curve', so that 'in her particular / falling, // She / could not of BEEN better.' The disappointment that the rainbow's end held no gold is overturned by the worth of having been and seen; naming Fay ties it back to the wake on page 037. This reading stays provisional because the page is flagged 'scan_review' status 'needs-followup' with uncertain transcription, spacing, and handwriting; the body holds many crossed-out variants and unstable later lines, and source spellings 'could not of' and the mixed capitals are preserved as written.