64 THE CEDARVILLE REVIEW Heimweh by Justin Kemp planted upon a mountain’s back— hiking boots, foreign mud splattered. Grip the rain-slick outcropping clinging, overlook to the overlooked misty valley’s belly. ache in the gut, a compass toward the boyhood forest obscured, uprooted. the boots balance upon uneven ruins, mountain vertebra, the bones scattered down the slope. handholds for a climber, the adventurer’s road out of the ghost forest, misty valley’s belly. ache in the gut, a compass
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