Debora Short - Conservation’s Heart

That coal
Once your
White-bearded
Mountainous delight
Is now a
Film rendering
Of shadow’s grime
An end-rattling
Of a hard-working
Good-hearted
Family man

(Mountaintop Cottage, Tennessee
~ August 20,2006)

Debora Short

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