cottonwood
Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
| Added inline | purple with double underline |
| Uncertain | gray with wavy underline |
| Supplied from another source | turquoise with brackets |
| Metamark | |
| Long deletion | gray background with top and bottom border |
[begin leaf 1 recto]
that hanged himsel
went to a lonesome place
with a pistol and killed
himself,and I came that way and
stumbled upon himI see the ^O dirt dirt hearse-borne once beloved! [illegible] corpse—I see the
I guess reckon think mind less you very are a good manure
—but that I do not smell— —I smellthe your beautiful white
roses— I kisstheir soft ^your leafy lips—I reach slide my
hands for the brown melons
of your breasts.— [begin leaf 1 verso]
-
[cut away]
cottonwood—mulberry— - chickadee—large brown water-dog—
- —black-snake—garter snake—
- —vinegar-plums—persimmon—
- —
whwhite-blossominged dog-wood— - —sweet potato—plum-trees—plumborchard
- —cedar—chestnut—
went to a lonesome place
with a pistol and killed
himself,
stumbled upon him
- locust,
birch with white and ringedbirch
cypress—buttonwood—
—but that I do not smell— —I smell
roses— I kiss
hands for the brown melons
of your breasts.— [begin leaf 1 verso]
