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The Light that Shatters Darkness
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Southern Illinois Coal Mining
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Poetry by David Bond and Photographs by Doc Horrell
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David Bond, Beth Martell, and Doc Horrell
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David Bond, Doc Horrell Photography Collection, SCRC
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Photographs 1970-1980, Poetry 1980-1990
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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell, SCRC
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Images and poetry
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English
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Coal
I watch them step into the sun
when first light strikes the dark faces
and they pause, blink, bib overalls coated with labor,
metal lunch pails shingled with stickers and myth.
I want to look at the eyes, shining like dollars of streaked gold,
the eyes of the father and the father’s father,
exhausted eyes of twelve year-old boys stationed between mules.
I need to strip romance down to an ebony cough,
a limestone room falling in slow motion,
a never-ending high sulfur flow like a rush of black blood.
At 2 AM under fluorescence I’m reading John Keats
as my computer blinks an iambic refrain
and I’m thinking of the honeycombed earth
where the beauty of a ninety degree crosscut
and the truth of an articulating crawler are all that really matter.
I’m listening in vain for a voice rising above the rumble,
that constant pirouetting of worn rollers,
the occasional clank of a metal splice gone bad,
a dusty metaphor in a language I almost remember.
But when I plumb the deep-set eyes
and stand three hundred feet below
in a heavy darkness I can taste like marsh ferns and carbide,
tethered to strands of crusted cobalt,
waiting for the spiked wheelworks to splice through,
I see those blue flames of need-fire burst from pitch;
stone-deaf, I hear that voice, forging words hard as coal.
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Photography of miners leaving work
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Coal
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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Bond poem, Horrell photo
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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell
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The Light That Shatters Darkness Exhibit
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Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Exhibit Window #4
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Coal mining
photography
poetry
southern Illinois
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The Light that Shatters Darkness
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Southern Illinois Coal Mining
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An account of the resource
Poetry by David Bond and Photographs by Doc Horrell
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David Bond, Beth Martell, and Doc Horrell
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David Bond, Doc Horrell Photography Collection, SCRC
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N/A
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Photographs 1970-1980, Poetry 1980-1990
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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell, SCRC
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The Tipple (Ars Poetica)
It’s nine degrees and too quiet.
Smoke from a power plant six miles off
hangs like a purple wound,
jagged chase in the soft skin of sky
and it seems the cold has smothered too,
any audible sounds of labor.
Far down the tracks a Mo-Pac engine
throbs in dieseled cadence.
Above on the load-out platform
workers bunch along yellow-painted railing.
I climb the steel treads,
kick through piles of powdery coal dust,
across checkerplated flooring
where rusted boxcars pass below,
hoppers poised to belch dark cataracts,
the shards glistening, gathering as
the burden of mind, culled and channeled
to the headchute’s Blackwall hitch.
Steam rises from metal thermoses.
Men talk among themselves,
their breath like spirit deserting flesh.
I join them at the railing,
look down to see a dead man
at the bottom of car number fifty-three,
chest-high snow like a blanket,
a stubborn barnacle the paramedics
later break loose with a washdown hose.
“Second one this year,” the superintendent says,
dribbling tobacco juice into a styrofoam cup.
“Now get your asses back to work.”
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Photograph of a coal mine preparation plant (tipple), background smoke
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The Tipple (Ars Poetica)
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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Horrell photo, Bond poem, Martell background
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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell
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The Light That Shatters Darkness Exhibit
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Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Exhibit Window #8
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Coal mining
photograph
poetry
southern Illinois
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The Light that Shatters Darkness
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Southern Illinois Coal Mining
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Poetry by David Bond and Photographs by Doc Horrell
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David Bond, Beth Martell, and Doc Horrell
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David Bond, Doc Horrell Photography Collection, SCRC
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N/A
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Photographs 1970-1980, Poetry 1980-1990
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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell, SCRC
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The Light That Shatters Darkness
David Bond, a current Morris Library staff member, previously worked for more than 17 years as third shift warehouse manager above an underground coal mine. At the same time, he attended SIU as a graduate student, and received an MFA in Creative Writing.
Since then, Bond has won two Illinois Arts Council Award Fellowships, a MacDowell Artist Fellowship, and published poems in numerous literary journals. His early poems about coal mining are in the chapbook "The Light That Shatters Darkness: Poems From the Spartan Mine."
Horrell's prize-winning photography complements Bond's poetry in this exhibit. His work is also published in the books, Colors and American Chicken.
Valedictory
What will you do now,
Bolter of Roofs, Shoveler of Spillages?
Your titles mean less
than the abandoned bib-overalls
dangling from treble hooks in the washhouse.
Look down the long fall one last time,
at darkness, the secret of light.
from "At The Closing Of The Spartan Mine"
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Photograph of abandoned coal mine washhouse
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Valedictory
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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Bond bio, Horrell photo, Bond poem
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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell
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The Light That Shatters Darkness Exhibit
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Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Exhibit Window #3
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Coal mining
photography
southern Illinois