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By Jack Joseph Smith

Sight She is the gold I'd seen in North Navada There she was, 2 doubble take Have I been to war and baek, she would know better than I How big is this Earth, when I had never seen anything like her There above In all the skies IBve seen Her beauty Stays the same

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GPT

North Nevada gold and a war-tested double 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.

Claude

'Sight' four — the shortest: the double take, been to war and back, and 'There above / In all the skies / I've seen / Her beauty / Stays the same.' The distilled form.