Ron Rash High Poems
- 1. Whippoorwill
The night Silas Broughton died
neighbors at his bedside heard
a dirge rising from high limbs
in the nearby woods, and thought
... - 2. The Skeleton In The Dogwood
(Watauga County, 1895)
Two lovers out walking found
more than spring's promised blessing
... - 3. On The Keowee
Three days searchers worked below
rock-leaps her feet had not bridged,
men trolling grabbling hooks through
suck hole and blue hole, bamboo
... - 4. Last Service
Though cranes and bulldozers came,
yanked free marble and creek stones
like loose teeth, and then shovels
unearthed coffins and Christ's
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