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    Stone’s Source, POSTSCRIPT  /60     Spires and Peaks, Ridges and sub-ridges,   shoulders and benches of exposed rock, spruce cones and dust, subalpine fir and dwarfed plants clinging to the places where Mountain goats hide and the goats themselves.   Bald nobs, and talus Passes and gaps.   The canvas was dirt and slope. The color grew out of sunlight as it arched over and blended throughout the day. The thicket was time, laid on in sheets, the story was all the stories that had ever been told.   Except for the one which the others forgot,   inside that cold morning, shared with memory.   60
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