David Lee was named the first Poet Laureate of Utah in 1997, and he has also received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. His work draws on a rich experience that includes seminary study, boxing, raising hogs, and becoming the only white athlete to play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars. Retired from Southern Utah University, where he taught for more than three decades, Lee divides his time among Oregon, Nevada, and Utah.

Two Poems

by David Lee

What Billy Klogphorne Told Me in Confidence That Day at the Champions Bowling Alley over Cold Schlitz Beer in Lincoln, Nebraska

My granddaughter told me
she was the fourth-grade Jacks champion
of her entire school and could hold her own
with most girls and all boys
up through sixth and if I’d like to try her
she’d clean my clock
which she couldn’t have done better
with a Brillo Pad

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