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By Jack Joseph Smith

Seconds Within Years If I take my mind Out as far as I can Ther 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

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

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.

Claude

''''Seconds Within Years' alt -- same speck-in-the-dark meditation; the cleaner of two versions.'''