This mountain takes life as its tithe.
It lures the finest to its breast
to feed upon their courage
and their youth.
It takes only the best.
Implacable, this mountain is
the spirit of inchoate spite.
Rewind the film clip
infinitely slowly
and with boundless faith,
until my child
is clinging to the harness
on its eastern face,
until my child is safe
and unaware
the rock will fall away
and catapult her
to its base
and crush her body
like a bird's,
and take her breath
to wreath about its crest -
and freeze the image there!
Mountain of mortality
© Copyright: Jena Woodhouse, 2008
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