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Appalachia’s night.
Black sky…
a great bed of coal
stretched above earth.
Moon tumbles
like a silver boulder
expelled from
mountaintop.
Weep, Pleaides,
my Seven Sisters.
Let your tears
rain down on
shattered mountains.
Where would the gods
have dwelled
if Mt. Olympus
had been mined?
Neva Bryan is widely published in literary journals, online magazines, and anthologies, including Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis, and We All Live Downstream: Writings about Mountaintop Removal. She lives in the mountain coalfields of Virginia with her husband and their two dogs.
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