Mountain Climbing
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Between the test and another test,between the test and the diagnosis,they wait like two on a mountainside,
the wind blowing and an icy snowfaintly falling . . . and falling faintly,not yet a blizzard, but enough confusion
to make them hunker down in the frailsafety of their tent, its sides buffeted,breaking for the moment the force
they feel as an affront. Betweenthe test and another test, the testand the diagnosis, they look about
where in the distance they can seethe ghost of another mountain crestingthrough the appalling snow, shards of ice. [End Page 105]
V. P. Loggins is the author of The Green Cup (2017), winner of the Cider Press Review Editors’ Book Prize, as well as The Fourth Paradise (Main Street Rag 2010) and Heaven Changes (Pudding House Chapbook Series 2007). His critical work includes The Life of Our Design and Shakespeare’s Deliberate Art (co-author). His poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Poetry East, Poetry Ireland Review, The Southern Review, and Tampa Review, among other journals. vploggins@gmail.com.
