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By Jack Joseph Smith

Insight When it is barren is when we see the work we have done I didn't think anything of it until I came back to the tree I planted Or crossed a street to seee the sorrow I never saw Or to see the sky change And to know why men are different at six o clock in the morning To see a river the same from Western Pennsylvania to Western Oregon Insight lets you come and go Insight lets you change

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GPT

Returning to a planted tree, crossing a street, watching sky and morning, and seeing a river across regions lead to a claim that insight allows movement and change.

The poem describes changed recognition of familiar places and work rather than giving a geographical or biographical record.

Claude

'Insight' holds that 'When it is barren is when / we see the work we have done', and finds recognition on return to 'the tree / I planted', in a street crossed 'to seee / the sorrow I never saw', and in 'a river the same / from Western Pennsylvania / to Western Oregon'.

Understanding is retrospective and portable: 'Insight lets you come and go / Insight lets you change'. The places mark a remembered span, not a documented route.