Black Bough Deep Time Review by Thomas Tyrrel Alternately, in ‘Linville Caverns, Humpback Mountain’, Carol Parris Krauss gives us something like a primordial myth, if our ancestors had been able to witness the glaciers advancing and receding on the scale of geological time. Channelling Ted Hughes, the poem remains strikingly original. Mountain collapsed, a bindle full of woes and weary strapped to his back, affixed by lichen and laurel. Mountain lamented limestone tears, coursed underland streams – only the blind trout to witness.