#consolnumber9

The Farmington Mining Disaster happened on this day in 1968. I offer an elegy for the grieving. "To this day, Farmington's families remember That cold 20th day of November The seventy-eight miners who died In the Consol Number 9"

Today’s Poetry Pub prompt for the November Poem a Day Challenge is “foggy.” Since today is the 53rd Anniversary of the Farmington Mining Disaster, I chose to combine the two. Sometimes a poem doesn’t get to where you want it, but because of the moment, you want to say something and so you do. Sometimes this is ill-advised. Other times, you feel you need to speak and trust that it will be…