The Hollow (43)

Dave BontaContemplative

200 years old or ten thousand

former road/streambed

rhododendron trunk

bare as high as a starving deer’s neck can stretch

elevation measured by the number of unripe spikenard berries

slow-creeping slope

all the tree boles curved to keep their balance

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bare as high as a deer’s

by the number of

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