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By Jack Joseph Smith

Lasting ho eAek ak This comfort, thiw against the way the willow, fo 7 Creeps its counterclock wind I have no time for the way this tree, 2% ‘doubnie turns, and drops and leaps away wie | ee its leving of shadow on o. soil I sing the memory of movies, drunk in two or more pkaces As stable as siguine I am silent Songs and sparrows rest on my shoulders Yet I am the only eyes gone away i f Light comes down heh aoe Ard dghic Ate a 4 he and I know it is morning I turn, and the neighbos, HolehZ have not left o be gone This grass is soft, obEr this barefoot walk is ager coalmining stuff LZ I am the old material one who loves, his ae coe I am the labore come back to gardener, Ss f now my silver spoon eger ae it up, YO they, a . and through it back, fy W eo the Northwest Terrirories lost! im Western Pennsylvania

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Willow, morning light, sparrows, movies, and coal-country ground make love feel material, local, and stubbornly enduring.


Claude

Love is made material through willow, sparrows, morning light, and coal-country ground. The stubbornness of the landscape is the stubbornness of the feeling.