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We Learned the Mountains by Heart

Jackson Holbert

May 24, 2018

We went to school we ate pink beef we drank lots of water we snorted ritalin our nostrils turned red we lifted weights we killed a mama moose we sold her teeth online we poked each other’s muscles we laid our large bodies down on docks and smelled the wind we bucked hay our skin was hard we touched our palms together speeding down the highway we turned the headlights off and felt a little holy we were strong but we were thin we slept on couches we tore rotten stumps with our big hands we swaddled our little sisters we wrestled our dogs we punched each other in the kidneys we shinnied up magnolias we closed our eyes we went to church we pelted magpies off the cherry trees we watched moonlight spread across the snow we trapped a spider and then we let him go

Jackson Holbert


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