Memories of Coal: Office Job
Title
Memories of Coal: Office Job
Subject
Coal Mining Exhibit
Description
Bond poem, Horrell photo, Martell background
Creator
David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell
Source
The Light That Shatters Darkness Exhibit
Publisher
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Contributor
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Rights
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Format
Text, JPG photograph
Language
English
Type
Poetry, photography
Identifier
Exhibit Window #12
Original Format
Photograph of piece of coal, background of cosmos
Text
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.
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.
Collection
Citation
David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell, “Memories of Coal: Office Job,” SCRC Virtual Museum at Southern Illinois University's Morris Library, accessed March 28, 2024, https://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/items/show/54.
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