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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: 'Mountain' | ||
| 3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
| 4 | project-order: 31 | ||
| 5 | genre: 'verse' | ||
| 6 | ... | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | The other side of this mountain \ | ||
| 9 | is not the mountain. This side \ | ||
| 10 | is honey-golden, sticky-sweet, \ | ||
| 11 | full of phone conversations with mother. \ | ||
| 12 | The other side is a bell, \ | ||
| 13 | ringing in the church-steeple \ | ||
| 14 | the day mother died. | ||
| 15 | |||
| 16 | The other side of the mountain \ | ||
| 17 | [is not a mountain. It is a dark][apollo] \ | ||
| 18 | valley crossed by a river. \ | ||
| 19 | There is a ferry at the bottom. | ||
| 20 | |||
| 21 | This mountain is not a mountain. \ | ||
| 22 | I walked to the top, but it turned \ | ||
| 23 | and was only a shelf halfway up. \ | ||
| 24 | I felt like an unused Bible \ | ||
| 25 | sitting on a [dusty pew][]. | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | A hawk soars over the mountain. \ | ||
| 28 | She is looking for home. | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | [apollo]: apollo11.html | ||
| 31 | [dusty pew]: and.html | ||