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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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Cappella Sistina
The night Floyd Massie took me underground
into a float-dust chaos and the scattered dice
of coal chunks we swerved to miss, on south to
double-cribbed No. 2 Entry where he worked
as a bolter, I remember the shadows from our
cap lamps discoing on the gray shale roof,
flickering across fossils of ferns and giant horse-
tails, a black mosaic of drowned forest.
Twenty years past and I recall Floyd’s tedious
joke about the dull bits being as sharp as me;
I remember “Too much damned torque!”
And I cannot forget his upcast bearded face,
arms lifted against the falling kettle bottom,
like God trying to separate light from darkness.
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Two photographs of miners roof bolting
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Cappella Sistina
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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Bond poem, Horrell photos, 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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Exhibit Window #6
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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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Poetry by David Bond and Photographs by Doc Horrell
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Photographs 1970-1980, Poetry 1980-1990
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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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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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Poetry by David Bond and Photographs by Doc Horrell
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David Bond, Beth Martell, and Doc Horrell
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Photographs 1970-1980, Poetry 1980-1990
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Coal Town, 1926
Night in Coal Town, Hunkie Row.
In a spill of uncut pitch we live,
floating ash from the alps of slag
the wet moon loops above as an
omen we cannot read. Here,
the cornsnow ricks dingy drifts
and a man grovels for ten-hour
turns in the space of a tomb. Here,
a swampslash of carbon defines us,
blesses us with its dark rainbow;
its oily grit flavors us like stew.
And here, tonight, a lone woman
at a lop-legged table cribbed with
cap boards like a piece of bad top
moon-watches, breathes in the ash,
the odors of stove polish and Hardwater
Castille Soap. She smiles at the way
lean flames of oil lamps flinch behind
curved glass. Her face is shining.
In the barn a blind pullhorse named
Doll stands asleep. Fresh-paid men
shuffle in line before Yates’ whorehouse.
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Three photographs of abandoned buildings
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Coal Town, 1926
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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Bond poem, 3 Horrell photographs
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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell
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Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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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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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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Conceit
Men perch on ripped 2 X 12’s minutes before
shift change at the mouth of a mine
alternately cursed and praised
for the blight of blemished lungs,
the tons of coal torn, loaded,
lifted from night to day, night to night,
the wild passage steel rollers sing,
systolic, regular as the inspiration
of wedded cigarettes, the slaver of Kodiak
between a chokedamp dialect,
crosscurrents of stale air and slow-burning slag,
the soundings each takes with each,
an allegory of lightless drudgery
limned each twelve hour trick.
And as they enter a metal framework
called the cage, hunched against the cold updraft,
as the greasy cable eases down,
the giant motor catches its breath,
ground rises and the latticework
of riveted steel scales past,
I think of my friend Lewis, descending.
Is there not a sort of nobility
in his scarred hands and broken nails,
in the fact that he can barely read the dirty
list of duties a foreman hands him
as formality? Is there not romance
in the sifting coal dust itself, masking
faces to burnt simulacrums by day’s end?
I imagine a place deep within the marrow of planet
where men and nature merge, laborers huddle
in the darkness of chambered sumps around
some warm transformer like the hermits of “Tintern Abbey,”
where life is distilled to a clarity of presence.
But then, as the brake dogs screech and
wire rope slackens, I see the rejected mountain
of pestled slack, the barren open cuts, sick orange
run-off to a lake of acidic waste. I think of
the fact that hermits were often hired by the rich
in Wordsworth’s time to live in caves. I think
of false nature, the deception of form, my own foolishness.
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Photograph of one-armed coal miner
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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Bond poem, Horrell photo, 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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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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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell, SCRC
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De Re Metallica
I remember listening that night
to the talk of mining accidents only
in driblets of sentences like the rain
depending from each scored hard hat
which was the reason they'd gathered
just inside the tin-roofed warehouse
before a wire screen separating
them from me, union from company,
hearing only half of what was said
above the tattoo of falling water, the f-word
exploiting every possible part of speech
as I fetched each one his or her particular
supply or tool or repair component--
tape measure, shop towel, ball joint--
it didn't matter, the company had
plenty of money and didn't care who
got exactly what so long as they kept
working seven-day shifts, and anyway
I was thinking of this girl I'd met while
taking classes at SIU, a chemistry major
actually, writing her master's thesis on
shellac, its origin and applications, a
practical girl for sure, intelligent and
at the same time pneumatic, callipygian,
which is a word I've yearned to use in
a poem for some time, a word I dared not
speak in a world where limericks were
high art yet poetry blinked back from darkness
and we all felt it, nudge of memory slippery
as gear grease, so I was trying real hard to
compose a verse that might appeal to such
a young lady, and I guess I just didn't
give it much thought at the time, being
busy gathering up supplies and deciding
how best to compare the glazed beauty
of a mound of discarded coal in the rain
to a woman's eyes, but now I recall quite
clearly an elderly miner's story of his
best friend's decapitation by means of the
sudden explosion of a 7200 volt electrical
line and its subsequent whipping about,
the way white rockdust churned,
cabletracks spitting into the blind walls,
the smell of lightning and melted rubber,
a prayer for God's ruthless compassion.
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Photograph of miner's worn, discarded leather glove
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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Bond poem, Horrell photo, Martell background
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Coal mining
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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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The Light That Shatters Darkness
This exhibit highlights some of Doc Horrell's iconic images of a region's mining history and, yes, a touch of nostalgia inherent in his photos from an era not so far in our past.
C. William "Doc" Horrell, once a student and later a faculty member at Southern Illinois University, was a key figure in the establishment of SIUC's Photographic Services and the Department of Cinema and Photography. Many of his photographs were published in one of Horrell's books, The Land Between the Rivers (1973), and Southern Illinois Coal: A Portfolio (1995), the latter documenting the coal industry in southern Illinois.
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Doc Horrell bio and cover photo from his book
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell
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Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Coal mining
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poetry
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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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Memories of Coal: Miner Dollars
Deep underground
between tapestries
of dusted coal face
and black shale
seams they chisel
loose pyrite discs
called “dollars”
dense auric crystals
not worth much
yet hoarded and
caressed as if time
present and time
past might be
captured in an icon
and I wonder if
they ever feel
sudden yearning
an uneasy hunger for
shallow seas among
the calamites and
those scarabs of sun
a world of blind
fish and crickets
where some fear
the darkness
yet return to it.
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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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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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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Poetry by David Bond and Photographs by Doc Horrell
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Memories of Coal: Office Job
A blackwash of coal dust
fine as fallout belches
from the beltline’s thundered
bedlam, raspings of Jurassic
marsh layering a soft, dark
efflorescent veil over the lethargic
screen of an off-white computer,
shelved catalogs of machinery’s
intrigue and the archives
of supreme production,
sparkling, glistening in false sun,
this extorted nebula spinning,
swirling all the way to my lungs.
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Photograph of piece of coal, background of cosmos
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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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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Coal mining
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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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Rend Lake At Sunset
Sloe water reaches for a rope of lit land
flung far across the artificial oxbow of lake.
It feels so good to pull the oaken oar’s
smooth helve back, relax, feather the blade flat,
lean forward, suck in cool air, pull again.
Distant, hills of scoured coal smolder
and the smoke rises, drifts, hovers
like a genitive spirit against the sky’s
last sad skein of light, sky that roils
as a bisque of blood and fire, confronts me
with the hopelessness of ever finding
a manageable vocabulary for beauty.
For years I worked with men who mined
dark drifts, who stumbled down the sloping
half-mile mouth each long night shift
into rib-ripped channels of ancient rivers
and the bittersweet taste of decay, strange
mellifluence that lingers this evening
in the smoke as a souvenir, an autism
bordering myth. I’m caught, as usual,
within this acrid smell, within soft riddles
of lines now barely visible on the water’s
dusky face, lines cast from a latticework
of curved steel beams and conveyor belt
rollercoasting the lakeshore; a castle of prep plant
with its concrete twin towers and lancet windows;
the cankered stonehenge of deep-cut machinery
bounding a parenthetical tin warehouse where
I inventoried screwdrivers, electric motors, my life.
All this as the passage of a familiar song
you hear unexpectedly: song of profanity and redundant
chokedamp coughs, song of tobacco and wildcat strikes,
song of shoulders sagging like the indulgent streets above,
song of grasses, song of graves, song of wounds
bound in the black raspings of this indifferent world,
song of absurdity, song of the sanctified,
of the way Dale Carnes, when the roof collapsed,
caressed his friend’s dead face like a lover
until the ambulance came. It feels so good
to pull the oaken oar’s smooth helve back, again,
to gulp down lungfuls of landscape before
I begin drifting off among the triple rhythm
of coalheaps growing closer and closer,
livid pyramids that rise, fall, rise again,
arsis and thesis, sweet shards of memory
that lead me, lemming-like, to a continent
no longer there. I swear, in this earthy,
polluted breeze, on this June evening,
I can almost forget the tragedy of bodies,
almost sleep in the fire far beneath
these tight belts of carbon, almost drown
in the slivered moon dancing lightly
on this blessing of smooth waters.
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Background photograph of water, hill, moon, clouds
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Rend Lake At Sunset
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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David Bond, Beth Martell
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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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Coal mining
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poetry
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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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Temporary Work Stoppage
That’s the phrase the company kept insisting we use,
as if that euphemism would change what it was,
and for five months I crossed the picket line
past camouflaged men who called me scab,
dodging scattered jackrocks
on the road to the coal preparation plant
where I’d work each day
at the jobs they’d deserted.
Some picketed because they had to,
to get the weekly strike fund checks,
because their unioned brotherhood required it,
and mostly they were silent, almost embarrassed,
as they sat in lawnchairs
or kept inside the small sheds they’d hauled in,
positioned like instruments of siege
beside the company gates.
Others swore and spat and threatened.
Sometimes they brought wives
from whose mouths came words
you wouldn’t hear on the evening news.
Sometimes children held signs
they couldn’t read.
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Every day it affected me a little more;
not fear, not really,
but a physical aching of the heart.
There is something you can’t articulate,
can’t place on exhibit
like the welded steel spikes
at home on my desk,
or the dozen bullet-holes
in the sheetmetal warehouse.
Something in the way they cursed,
in the eye dark with what might have been hate,
in the way the strike was only a metaphor,
in the way you knew
that shortly they’d be back,
working beside you again.
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Photographs of jackrocks and striking miners
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Temporary Work Stoppage
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Coal Mining Exhibit
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Bond poem, Horrell photograph, 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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English
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Poetry, photography
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Exhibit Window #9
Coal mining
photography
poetry
southern Illinois