Wednesday, February 11, 2015

High mountain snow


High mountain snow

At last
after piercing the darkness
a smile and whiteness..
departing the hyena
the knowing death..
departing the quarrels
death wrapping words..
those writing beacons
shaded with death..
and brief happiness
 from death rising..
At last
a smile and such
whiteness..
and the hyena's
welcoming cry...

(Hemingway's 
The Snows of
Kilimanjaro)

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