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2 | title: The mountain | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: mountain | ||
6 | toc: "The mountain" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
10 | class: elegies | ||
11 | order: 19 | ||
12 | prev: | ||
13 | - title: The moon is gone and in its place a mirror | ||
14 | link: moonegone | ||
15 | next: | ||
16 | - title: Serengeti | ||
17 | link: serengeti | ||
18 | ... | ||
19 | |||
20 | | The other side of this mountain | ||
21 | | is not the mountain. This side | ||
22 | | is honey-golden, sticky-sweet, | ||
23 | | full of phone conversations with mother. | ||
24 | | The other side is a bell, | ||
25 | | ringing in the church-steeple | ||
26 | | the day mother died. | ||
27 | |||
28 | | The other side of the mountain | ||
29 | | [is not a mountain. It is a dark][apollo] | ||
30 | | valley crossed by a river. | ||
31 | | There is a ferry at the bottom. | ||
32 | |||
33 | | This mountain is not a mountain. | ||
34 | | I walked to the top, but it turned | ||
35 | | and was only a shelf halfway up. | ||
36 | | I felt like an unused Bible | ||
37 | | sitting on a [dusty pew][]. | ||
38 | |||
39 | | A hawk soars over the mountain. | ||
40 | | She is looking for home. | ||
41 | |||
42 | [apollo]: apollo11.html | ||
43 | [dusty pew]: and.html | ||