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