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+title: The mountain
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Elegies for alternate selves
+    css: elegies
+    order: 19
+    prev:
+        title: The moon is gone and in its place a mirror
+        link: moonegone
+    next:
+        title: Serengeti
+        link: serengeti
+...
+
+The other side of this mountain \
+is not the mountain.  This side \
+is honey-golden, sticky-sweet, \
+full of phone conversations with mother.  \
+The other side is a bell, \
+ringing in the church-steeple \
+the day mother died.
+
+The other side of the mountain \
+[is not a mountain.  It is a dark][apollo] \
+valley crossed by a river.  \
+There is a ferry at the bottom.
+
+This mountain is not a mountain.  \
+I walked to the top, but it turned \
+and was only a shelf halfway up.  \
+I felt like an unused Bible \
+sitting on a [dusty pew][].
+
+A hawk soars over the mountain.  \
+She is looking for home.
+
+[apollo]: apollo11.html
+[dusty pew]: and.html