Ron Rash

Waking


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      ALSO BY RON RASH

      NOVELS

       One Foot in Eden Saints at the River The World Made Straight Serena

      POETRY

       Eureka Mill Among the Believers Raising the Dead

      STORIES

       The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth Casualties Chemistry and Other Stories Burning Bright

      Copyright © 20II

      Hub City Press

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      First printing, October 2011

      Book design: Emily Louise Smith

      Printed in Saline, MI

      by McNaughton & Gunn, Inc.

      Cover photograph © Tom Fowlks / Getty

      TEXT Janson Pro 9.8/13.5

      DISPLAY Futura 11

      Library of Congress

      Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Rash, Ron, 1953–

      Waking / Ron Rash.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-1-891885-82-2 (alk. paper)

      1. North Carolina—Poetry.

      2. Mountain life—Poetry.

      3. Southern States—Poetry.

      I. Title.

      PS3568.A698W35 2011

      811’.54—dc22

      2011008143

      186 W. Main Street

      Spartanburg, SC 29306

       www.hubcity.org

      FOR Joyce Brown and Earl Holder

       CONTENTS

       I.

       First Memory

       The Trout in the Springhouse

       Milking Traces

       Sleepwalking

       Woodshed in Watauga County

       Junk Car in Snow

       Time Flow

       The Wallet

       Myopia

       Charley Starnes

       Watauga County: 1959

       II.

       Bonding Fire

       Pocketknives

       Shadetree

       Car Tags

       Muskellunge

       Tobacco Barn

       Spillcorn

       Emrys

       Mirror

       Rebecca Boone

       Woman Among Lightning

       III.

       Bloodroot

       The Reaping

       Dismal

       Hearth

       Tobacco

       Elegy for Merle Watson

       Blue Cat

       White Wings

       The Girl in the River

       Resonance

       Three A.M. and the Stars Were Out

       IV.

       Genealogy

       Rhiannon

       Dylan Thomas

       The Code

       When Serpents Came

       Shiloh: 1801

       Cold Harbor

       The Crossing