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- Article Title: Dinner by the River
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And midway through the first course
of pickled fish in the restaurant
by the river that night
slid a black on black
barge
under the brilliantly lit
bridge
silent
unmanned
unlit
Souls
destined
for the underworld?
I ventured
to my friend but he said
it was only coal
That silent
burden of blackness was not
only coal
it was smuggling history
through southern Poland
it was dragging me back
to the nineteen forties
to when there was less light
to when my friend
hadn’t been born
to when the bridge
was a broken arch
to when carbon
had another meaning
falling like soot
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