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Linda Parsons Marion Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2007, p. 64 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0142 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/433633/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:02 GMT from JHU Libraries The Road to Happiness We drive east to the blue-bearded Pisgahs congregating shoulder to shoulder toward Asheville. Intractable mountains, toupeed in white, grant us passage—similar impassable years between mother and daughter. Mist burns off ridgetops like thoughts of winter: far, farther, gone. Last fall in Wales you hiked to cliffs above Swansea Bay, until near the brink you crept on all fours like the spray-tangled sheep, inched into heady wind, sure as the wing of a magpie delighting at the sheer drop. From a globe away, I watched you take shape. Banking the velvet curves past Newfound— talk of boyfriends, happiness, such slippery slopes. I too traveled that dark march of pine, hairpin turns and drop-offs, wild as the route my father drove before the interstate cut through the Cumberlands. Months apart bridged with guessing games and knock- knocks, my mother's goodbye of ice and fire, our unspeakable cargo. Now you have seen the cliff wall, though
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 2014
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