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Meng's mountain
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Breathing out I approach the mountain
Breathing in the mountain approaches me. Following the barely visible trail through evolution, following the Milky Way across the top of the skull into the star field at the back of the mind, pressing forward as sudden wordless understanding. My longing is a rope bridge across icy ravines and empty compliments. My arms grow tired and fall away, vertebra by vertebra the hanging gardens drift up the spine to reveal the 27 heavens. Bare attention! my face slips from my bare skull, chest opening to expose Jacob halfway up the ladder. He longs for the horizon. So light this passage one must carry a cicada in each hand to keep the sutras honest on the lips and in the heart, that maps the way.
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