Deep the Mountain

by Michele Savaunah Zirkle

Mountain top removal has chopped off the peaks of 135 mountains on over 352,000 acres in the state whose slogan is “Wild and Wonderful.”

Home base. Everyone needs one. Even when I’m traveling with wings of steel across the landscapes speckled with the dust of a thousand treetops, I feel anchored deep within the mountains of hope inside of me—mountains th…