I’m going to the mountain today

by the dirt road.

I rest at each plateau

and remind myself

that what seems like nowhere

is me talking to the mountain,

rain on my shoulders,

hair like autumn grass

that blinds me as I climb

to the ridge of sea fossils

pushed up from other lives.

Nellie Hill’s work has appeared in a variety of magazines and literary journals. She has published two books, and her fourth chapbook, Winter Horse, is being published this month.

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