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Vintage Rain

Vintage Rain grandfather's hog call it sent chills up my spine and moved me as few other poems I've ever heard read. That's how I want to remember West, as an imposing and dignified figure, assured of his voice and of his position in the world, even as he struggled up the final steep hillsides of the Appalachian mountains he so dearly loved and fiercely fought for. Just or unjust, I am untouched by rain: no windows in the upstairs rooms to shut, No clothes to gather from a sagging line, no screen to latch in case the wind comes up; I have no crops to flood-- no creek to rise . . . When ashes from dry springs wash through my mind, I recollect how Grandma set our old rain barrel outside. --Barbara Shirk Parish http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Vintage Rain

Appalachian Review , Volume 22 (2) – Jan 8, 1994

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University of North Carolina Press
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Abstract

grandfather's hog call it sent chills up my spine and moved me as few other poems I've ever heard read. That's how I want to remember West, as an imposing and dignified figure, assured of his voice and of his position in the world, even as he struggled up the final steep hillsides of the Appalachian mountains he so dearly loved and fiercely fought for. Just or unjust, I am untouched by rain: no windows in the upstairs rooms to shut, No clothes to gather from a sagging line, no screen to latch in case the wind comes up; I have no crops to flood-- no creek to rise . . . When ashes from dry springs wash through my mind, I recollect how Grandma set our old rain barrel outside. --Barbara Shirk Parish

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1994

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