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The Holyoke mountain range is a giant
Lying east-west so one side of her is always
Too cold and one side too hot.
She lives in the edge of discomfort and remembers
There used to be giant beavers in this valley
And glaciers and moose and once long ago
She was the ocean.
Can you imagine
The electricity of being shaded on one side in the cool damp
Of hemlocks and sweeping mossy carpets
And on the other the smooth, hot shivering trunks
Of birches, beech, and goldenrod?
Can you imagine containing multitudes--
The beavers, the moose,
The hemlock, the beech,
And the ocean?
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