Mountain Tally                                                   


            One would think
 
            Given the mountain's
            Dwarfing immobility and embrace
 
            We relatively frail and transient pilgrims
            Would take greater care
 
            Instead
            Up or down
            We go our separate ways
 
            Divisible, as always,
            Just by one


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            Emanuel E. García, The Virtues of Calamity, One Hundred Poems2013