(Watauga County, 1895) <br /> <br />Two lovers out walking found <br />more than spring's promised blessing <br />on new beginnings hanging <br />in a dogwood tree's branches. <br /> <br />No friend or kin claimed those bones. <br />The high sheriff came. Foul play <br />he was sure, but how or why <br />he found no answers, so stayed <br /> <br />to help break the ground, help haul <br />a flat rock out of the creek, <br />sprinkle some dirt, some God words, <br />then left for more recent crimes. <br /> <br />The lovers wed that winter. <br />On their marriage night they dreamed <br />of bouquets of spring flowers <br />blooming in a dead man's hand.<br /><br />Ron Rash<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-skeleton-in-the-dogwood/
