title the mountain id mountain genre verse project title elegies for alternate selves class 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