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| author | Case Duckworth | 2015-01-29 10:36:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Case Duckworth | 2015-01-29 10:36:44 -0700 |
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Add links to Elegies; write TODO.txt
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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: 'Mountain' | ||
| 3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
| 4 | ... | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | The other side of this mountain \ | ||
| 7 | is not the mountain. This side \ | ||
| 8 | is honey-golden, sticky-sweet, \ | ||
| 9 | full of phone conversations with mother. \ | ||
| 10 | The other side is a bell, \ | ||
| 11 | ringing in the church-steeple \ | ||
| 12 | the day mother died. | ||
| 13 | |||
| 14 | The other side of the mountain \ | ||
| 15 | [is not a mountain. It is a dark][apollo] \ | ||
| 16 | valley crossed by a river. \ | ||
| 17 | There is a ferry at the bottom. | ||
| 18 | |||
| 19 | This mountain is not a mountain. \ | ||
| 20 | I walked to the top, but it turned \ | ||
| 21 | and was only a shelf halfway up. \ | ||
| 22 | I felt like an unused Bible \ | ||
| 23 | sitting on a [dusty pew][]. | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | A hawk soars over the mountain. \ | ||
| 26 | She is looking for home. | ||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | [apollo]: 10-apollo11.html | ||
| 29 | [dusty pew]: 08-and.html | ||