By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This `Seconds Within Years` variant favors the small `speck in the dark` over the spread-out landscape as the image powerful enough to restart mental travel.
Preserving `Ther get it back` and `And open:it up` keeps the page closer to the scan's typed texture. The poem's argument still turns on a stark preference for a concentrated dark point over broad illuminated scenery.
A second copy of 'Seconds Within Years' carrying the same meditation on attention with its scan-typed texture intact. The mind goes 'Out as far as I can,' is retrieved ('Ther get it back'), and opened ('And open:it up') 'To see if there / is anything to see.' Again the poem prefers 'The speck in the dark' over 'the spread of scapes / in the light' as the image strong enough to make him 'brave enough / for travel again.' Source typos like 'Ther' and the colon in 'open:it up' are preserved.