By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
North Navada gold and a war-tested doubble take widen the whole earth and sky, yet her beauty remains fixed above all the distances the speaker has known.
The poem strips the encounter down to scale, moving from Earth to skies without losing the intimacy of the glance. War still haunts the comparison, but beauty outlasts that measure and stays unchanged. The upward motion gives her permanence something almost cosmic.
The shortest 'Sight' strips the encounter to scale. The familiar gold, the 'doubble take', and the war-tested question -- 'Have I been to war and baek, / she would know better than I' -- open out to 'How big is this Earth.' Then it lifts the constancy almost into the cosmic: 'There above / In all the skies / I've seen / Her beauty / Stays the same', beauty outlasting every distance the speaker has crossed.