blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone to — Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone to — Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone to — Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone to — Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone to — Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
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blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines without reservation (p. 97)

— Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
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