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Explore the July 2026 Issue<\/h2>\n

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

View More<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

I dreamed of the mountains again
and felt the rising joy
as the road wound upward<\/p>\n

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through the dark woods
then villages rank with silage
and spattered with cow manure<\/p>\n

all the needs of the body
I didn\u2019t know any better
geraniums a vibration<\/p>\n

against the ancient chalets
no one else around
the clattering of water<\/p>\n

in log troughs unheard
at that hour of afternoon
and I felt the names on my tongue<\/p>\n

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Hu\u00e9moz Ch\u00e9si\u00e8res Barboleusaz<\/i>
as the view opened out
with the high snowfields beyond<\/p>\n

almost too bright to bear
It was my life you see
and everything still to do<\/p>\n

It was spring there was a path
the meadow full of wildflowers
leading to a little cemetery<\/p>\n

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I passed a man and a boy
sitting beside the road
they raised their hands to me<\/p>\n

This poem appears in the <\/i>July 2026<\/i> print edition.<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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