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| 1 | --- | ||
| 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 | ||