News of the Son Still on the Mountain


CAN YOU WRITE ABOUT IT,
THE FATHER ASKS

            for Tim

His son still works in the shop
on the mountain
even though the resort closed down.
Is it eerie, his father asks, being alone
on a mountain where people
come from all over just to ski?
What's it like in the moment
to moment? What's it like at night?
He writes that he's shoveling snow,
that the sun rises in the east,
it sets in the west.

Dad
2 April 2020


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