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No Air Rosemary Pitman-Redmon Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 3, Summer 1994, p. 26 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0084 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437211/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:16 GMT from JHU Libraries No Air Their lungs are ebony teakettles whistling in coal dust. There is no ancient artwork etched on these walls of deep fossil. Falling slate crumbles and settles. They talk about trucks beginning to rust, and the slew they caught at Wheeling. Contractions echo in their common tomb. There is no air. Their jittering stops in the blackness of it all. Their blood pools like water in a bucket. There is no air. —Rosemary Pitman-Redmon http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

No Air

Pitman-Redmon, Rosemary.
Appalachian Review , Volume 22 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Rosemary Pitman-Redmon Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 3, Summer 1994, p. 26 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0084 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437211/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:16 GMT from JHU Libraries No Air Their lungs are ebony teakettles whistling in coal dust. There is no ancient artwork etched on these walls of deep fossil. Falling slate crumbles and settles. They talk about trucks beginning to rust, and the slew they caught at Wheeling. Contractions echo in their common tomb. There is no air. Their jittering stops in the blackness of it all. Their blood pools like water in a bucket. There is no air. —Rosemary Pitman-Redmon

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