From Ali Cobby Eckerman’s collection Little Bit Long Time, her first poem “The Mountain” describes the act of writing, or the act of making Art, thus:
The Mountain
Lips crack
bleeding,
the mountain dries up
on my tongue.
Hands blister
clumsy,
the mountain rises up
on my fingers.
I sit to watch
and wait.
A bird comes.
I ask nothing
turn and grasp
the view.
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