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In August Lauren climbs Mt. Kearsarge,

where I last clambered in middle age,

while I sit in my idle body

in the car, in the cool parking lot,

revising these lines for Kurt Schwitters,

counting nine syllables on fingers

discolored by old age and felt pens,

my stanzas like ballplayers sent down

to Triple A, too slow for the bigs.

In August Lauren climbs Mt. Kearsarge,

where I last clambered in middle age,

while I sit in my idle body

in the car, in the cool parking lot,

revising these lines for Kurt Schwitters,

counting nine syllables on fingers

discolored by old age and felt pens,

my stanzas like ballplayers sent down

to Triple A, too slow for the bigs.