That coal <br />Once your <br />White-bearded <br />Mountainous delight <br />Is now a <br />Film rendering <br />Of shadow’s grime <br />An end-rattling <br />Of a hard-working <br />Good-hearted <br />Family man <br /> <br />(Mountaintop Cottage, Tennessee <br />~ August 20,2006)<br /><br />Debora Short<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/conservation-s-heart/
