Stone Soup

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The Standing Mountains

They are frozen

but not yet gone

They feel so sad but cold

I can’t

Oh I can’t feel my body

when I stare at them

for they’re so great

and I’m so small

The Standing Mountains Cora Gelman
Cora Gelman, 8
Washington, D.C.