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By Jack Joseph Smith

Seconds Within Years If I take my mind Out as far as I can Then get it back And open' it up To see if there is anything to see It would be perhaps ; The speck in the dark Rather than the spread of scapes in the light That would engage my mind To be brave enough for travel again

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page proposes a mental journey outward and back, discovering that one dark speck may matter more than all the bright spread if it can make travel possible again.

This is a strong statement about attention. The poem values the small difficult point over broad scenic comfort.

Claude

''''Seconds Within Years' -- mind sent out as far as possible, then retrieved. The speck in the dark beats the spread of scapes in the light; that speck re-arms him for travel.'''