a mountain stretches far into the sky<\/p>\n
above a sleepy austrian village.<\/p>\n
in worn-out sneakers and an oversized hoodie,<\/p>\n
a tiny sillhouette chooses to dance with it.<\/p>\n
They begin a slow, trudging walz<\/p>\n
the girl goes around and around the mountains dirt base<\/p>\n
through the stones, and through the trees,<\/p>\n
and past a secret lake that sits stellar and placid in the summer sun.<\/p>\n
The dance speeds up, now an agressive tango<\/p>\n
as the ascent steepens and the girls legs ache with peril.<\/p>\n
Yet her dance partner encourages her to push on,<\/p>\n
lending the proper molds for her tiny feet to climb up on<\/p>\n
until she reaches the flower beds at the mountains summit<\/p>\n
and feels awakened to the world around her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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