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Penobscot Mountain

First, the glaciers,

then lichen: black, gray, rosettes of green

oozing acids into pink granite.

Wineleaf cinquefoil and Greenland sandwort

advancing tiny white flowers.

Blueberry, black crowberry, juniper

forging between frost-wedged rock.

I feel Penobscot’s back breaking under my tread

Appalachia

Appalachian Mountain Club

Summer, 1982