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Coal Train

by Helen Vitoria

Conductor’s note: Helen’s poem “Paris Metro, 2000” was published in the April 6, 2011 issue of TrainWrite.

You will call me and tell me about how the coal train has not gone through Nesquehoning in almost sixty years, you will remind me how you are only forty but know that about the architecture of small Pennsylvania coal towns, you will share your fears that the government has left combustible black ore in veins beneath the ground as sure as the late summer tall milk thistle covers the road signs to your house. You will not call me the night you commit suicide. When I am driving to your service days later, I will remember that the cemetery is a left turn after the train tracks.

Helen Vitoria lives and writes in Effort, PA. Her work can be found and is forthcoming in over sixty online and print journals, including elimae, PANK, and MudLuscious Press. Her first full length poetry collection, Corn Exchange, is forthcoming from Scrambler Books. She is the Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of THRUSH Poetry Journal.

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