Truchas (Elevation 8,000 Feet)
Climbing
these stairs,
I resemble
a trout
flopping
in dry air,
another gasp
and a ratcheting
heart rate, up,
out, and through
that opening,
into the pale glow.
Maybe we’ll get back there someday…
O at the Edges
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O at the Edges 
Can identify with the stairs pictured more than with the mountain. Even in my youth I’d’ve been unwilling to even try to climb Truchas! Yet, I will again next month be at 9000 ft near Cloudcroft NM … arriving via vehicle … chilling and grateful that bit of NM did not catch fire.
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I remember that on my first visit there, I wondered what was wrong with me. Why was I out of breath after climbing one flight of stairs? Was it my heart? And then I realized, oh, 8,000 feet…
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