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Fire in Steubenville, and: Country Matters

Fire in Steubenville, and: Country Matters Two Poems RICHARD HAGUE FIRE IN STEUBENVILLE Each time I come back home something else has burned. The abandoned Pennsylvania stationwhere years ago I stood in fog and listened for the train to Washington, D,C, and later, in the sooty afternoons, laid pennies on the rails for mainline freights to flatten thin as knife-blades^ that station was the first to go. Black smoke choked a hundred slag-gray pigeons; scorched rats ran downtown towards the river. Across the street, in Pug's Hotel, a dozen winos rubbed their eyes, and chucked their old timetables. Then, Pug's Hotel itself, where a group of Harvard scholars, come to study smoke and smoke's effects upon the city stayed. Their files and Cambridge pin-stripes made good kindling. Then, a warehouse down on Fifth Street. Ten football fields of carpets unrolled into flame, and up and down the street, fireman hosed the smoking homes of out-of-town Italians. Then, a lumber yard, a pharmacy, a bingo-hall. The sidewalks buckled, old women wandered in the alleys towards the Holy Name Cathedral, stumbling over hoses, handkerchiefs to mouths, and wheezed and coughed in grime. No arrests were made. In Steubenville, fire--in one form or another, whether open hearth, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Fire in Steubenville, and: Country Matters

Appalachian Review , Volume 7 (3) – Jan 8, 1979
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Two Poems RICHARD HAGUE FIRE IN STEUBENVILLE Each time I come back home something else has burned. The abandoned Pennsylvania stationwhere years ago I stood in fog and listened for the train to Washington, D,C, and later, in the sooty afternoons, laid pennies on the rails for mainline freights to flatten thin as knife-blades^ that station was the first to go. Black smoke choked a hundred slag-gray pigeons; scorched rats ran downtown towards the river. Across the street, in Pug's Hotel, a dozen winos rubbed their eyes, and chucked their old timetables. Then, Pug's Hotel itself, where a group of Harvard scholars, come to study smoke and smoke's effects upon the city stayed. Their files and Cambridge pin-stripes made good kindling. Then, a warehouse down on Fifth Street. Ten football fields of carpets unrolled into flame, and up and down the street, fireman hosed the smoking homes of out-of-town Italians. Then, a lumber yard, a pharmacy, a bingo-hall. The sidewalks buckled, old women wandered in the alleys towards the Holy Name Cathedral, stumbling over hoses, handkerchiefs to mouths, and wheezed and coughed in grime. No arrests were made. In Steubenville, fire--in one form or another, whether open hearth,

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1979

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