Originally Posted by
freckle
Map reference
Simon Armitage
Not that it was the first peak in the range,
or the furthest.
It didn't have the swankiest name
and wasn't the highest even, or the finest.
In fact, if those in the know
ever had their say about sea levels or cross sections,
or had their way with angles and vectors,
or went there withtheir instruments about them,
it might have been more of a hill than a mountain.
As for its features,
walls fell into stones along its lower reaches,
fields ran up against its footslopes, scree had loosened
from around its shoulders. Incidentally, pine trees
pitched about its south and west approaches.
We could have guessed, I think, had we taken to it,
the view, straightforward from its summit.
So,
as we round on it from the road that day,
how very smart of me to say or not to say
what we both knew;
that it stood where it stood, so absolutely, for you.
