Poem of the Week | May 12, 2014
David Lee: "An Elegiac Point of Honor"
This week we’re delighted to offer a poem by David Lee from our new spring issue, 37.1. Lee splits his time between Bandera, Texas and Seaside, Oregon, where he scribbles and wanders available byways and trails, all at about the same rate and pace. He is currently in advanced training to achieve his goal of becoming a World Class Piddler.
Author’s note:
After I finished the poem “Tough” ( the tale of the death of Ralph Ragsdale’s wife Buena Vista Ragsdale), Ralph appeared to me in a dream and said some version of the following: “you were purdy tough on me in that pome you wrote about Buena Vista and I don’t think I deserve it all that much, after all I defended her honor in that fight I had with Odus Millard down to the pool hall.” So I asked What fight? and he told me the story. And so I wrote it. And as they say in Tejas, that’s purdy much all they are to it.
An Elegiac Point of Honor
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