When the mountain eats you

When the mountain eats you
Succumb, cry  forgive
Reaching high and wide
Beyond your field of vision

Objectify the mountain?
No fear…

Far away a chocolate dream box
Closer, in sharp focus blades of rock
Adorned with glistening snow
Fecund bulk curving
Foothills, handmaids

To the mountain god

Quiet, lie in the rock
On your stomach, alone in the darkness ice coolness
Recovering from the stony teeth
And your own regrets, saliva of misapprehension
Still cloying in you hair.

You were anesthetized
It has worn away
Wake up and wonder
Where is the mountain?

Is there a mountain?
Breath in the mountain air
Drink from the mountain stream
Open your mouth
Sing out

I
A
m  mountain


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