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<p><span class="line">The other side of this mountain</span><span class="line">is not the mountain. This side</span><span class="line">is honey-golden, sticky-sweet,</span><span class="line">full of phone conversations with mother.</span><span class="line">The other side is a bell,</span><span class="line">ringing in the church-steeple</span><span class="line">the day mother died.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">The other side of the mountain</span><span class="line"><a href="apollo11.html">is not a mountain. It is a dark</a></span><span class="line">valley crossed by a river.</span><span class="line">There is a ferry at the bottom.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">This mountain is not a mountain.</span><span class="line">I walked to the top, but it turned</span><span class="line">and was only a shelf halfway up.</span><span class="line">I felt like an unused Bible</span><span class="line">sitting on a <a href="and.html">dusty pew</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">A hawk soars over the mountain.</span><span class="line">She is looking for home.</span></p>
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