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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
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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
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