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Where Is Gutzon Borglum Now That We Need Him? Boulders forming the silhouette were dislodged last week by ordinary geologic forces. Embarrassing, as the famous image appears on New Hampshire’s souvenir coin. —AP The Great Stone Face existed as a face In profile only. Should we in its place Put up a one-man Rushmore in the round, So literal that any meaning found By some postmodern Hawthorne would be lost In controversies over choice and cost? The Profile had hawk nose and jutting chin That one might contemplate New England in. It was, full front, an overhang of rock In which a symbolist would put no stock: A naturally deconstructed text Too jumbled to be dated or be sexed. Generic Yankee, hero’s portrait bust, Whatever goes up on the mountain must To make it onto any seal of state Be too beyond contention to debate. 28 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. A Great Stone Jackie Kennedy, perhaps; An Old Man of the Mountain under wraps Until revealed as (You may put in here Whichever rock star you just now revere). Could no Onassis, God, cement or mortar Prop up that image for New Hampshire’s quarter? 29 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...

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