Ron Rash Away Poems
- 1. The Price
Knee deep in the Watauga's
rock leaping whitewater,
my brother loses his balance,
his life if our father
... - 2. The Exchange
Between Wytheville, Virginia
and the North Carolina line,
he meets a wagon headed
where he's been, seated beside
... - 3. The Ascent
Some thought she had slipped, the plank
glazed slick with ice, or maybe
already cold beyond care,
drowsy and weary, bare feet
... - 4. In Dismal Gorge
The lost can stay lost down here,
in laurel slicks, false-pathed caves.
Too much too soon disappears.
... - 5. Fall Creek
As though shedding an old skin,
Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight,
clots of leaves blackening snags,
back of pool where years ago
...
