25 August 2022

Postcard 191


We sat and
then we stand
footfall footfall
climb hand over hand
legs strong as sheep
hot sun south side
shale slide stone sharp
shear face ever steep

skidee skidee
 
whistle songs
wind scream short
breath blister knee
there goes and there
goes and another fall free
 
precipice precipice
 
stone fall stone fall
all is gravity gravid pull is all
leg up leg up foot down foot
down knees buckle
like ice crack-weak
as water melt snow pack
collapse ice in schist
lithic split
 
carapice carapice
 
snow crash avalanche
stress and split buckle
break through mountain feet
chasm canyon stream unend
valley carve valley make
valley carve valley make
 
the ache the ache
 
too high breath
too high the ache

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