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Jocassee: 1916

Dam-break, a flood in drought time,
August sun flashing on tin
a barn roof, all that's above
as two men pass like a cloud
over pasture, boat bow filled
with crowbar and ax, a rope,
for something in that barn lives,
so anchor, hang on the roof,
peel back tin slats, break through beams
before it comes, a stallion
shedding tin's dazzle like scales
as it rises through the roof
like an image opening
inside the mind, born of fire
and waterborne, alive.

Ron Rash
Raising the Dead
Iris Press