Dark Air
Cynthia Perkins
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I never lived in Appalachia Just a traveler through some mountain lands Where sudden deer appear in night fog Like holy apparitions And once I married a young handsome biker Whose foot tangled at birth In gloomy myth in gloomy myth His father was a coal miner down in Tennessee Where he met and married Esther a Cherokee He pulled up out of that mining hole and brought his family To the corn fields of Ohio and the smoke stacks of the foundries Well Jessie was a tidy man He grew smaller day by day Till his lungs were snuffed like carbide lamps The mine took him away Way down deep in the underground Breathing black dust to the pick axe sound Way down deep in the underground Repeat verse Two elder sons gone long before him Not to the dust of mines but worse One from hard work the other from hard liquor And the arrows of an Indian curse Separately like highway deer They flew out into the dark air Night driving my handsome biker drunk Repeat verse Well I was cursed said Esther For leaving the reservation The reservation and the coal mine stalked her And took her men Repeat first verse
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