Ron Rash Lost 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 Men Who Raised The Dead
If they had hair it was gray,
the backs of their hands wormy
currents of blue veins, old men
the undertaker believed
... - 3. Last Service
Though cranes and bulldozers came,
yanked free marble and creek stones
like loose teeth, and then shovels
unearthed coffins and Christ's
... - 4. In Dismal Gorge
The lost can stay lost down here,
in laurel slicks, false-pathed caves.
Too much too soon disappears.
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