Read Poem: surMOUNTable, by Robin Pullen

(read from bottom to top!)

gods.

to the portal of the

“Approach the peak.” We nod, we plod

Summons us to step, not pause,

The summit beckons, she-a force-

The hazy horizon mutes our course

Immune to missteps-losses, love;

While from above, Olympus shrugs,

eternity

The boulder pushes to
uncertainty

* ** WITH pitch black