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Show ^r Out West Unaware, she took a mountain into her body. A t r i c k of vision t o l d her i t was a man- she f e l t his long arms wrap her, roots of snow-scarred ridgecrest pine. To her small hands, his back was sun-hot granite and she, naked t o the wind in high and sudden space. She never knew, but suspected, hearing rivers roar white in his late night voice, that she could not measure his promise in human speech. Unaware, she took a mountain close t o her secrets and her heart, and turning, found herself alone watching a hunter hawk climb a well of untracked air. CPinedale, Wyoming 1978) |