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Autumn Leaves

volume 5 number 6

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Desert Mountains

by Robert McKay

Desert mountains are the best
You can see their bones.
When forests cover the mountains
All you see is green—
You don't see the mountains.
In the desert you see the mountains themselves—
And then you know their character.

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