The art of making mountains

What do you know?  Its your poem!  I was reading through the comments again - you must have changed "heldfast" to "clung" before I ever read this.  Very nice choice of words (if I'm in the right place on that.)  One more note on "shattered" - though its far removed from the word "shit" later on, I think there's a strong alliterative connection between the two that is very pleasing to the ear.