David Lee was named the first Poet Laureate of Utah in 1997 and 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. Lee lives in Texas, where he and his wife, Jan, moved after he retired as the chair¬man of Southern Utah University’s Department of Language and Literature.

Loading a Boar

by David Lee

We were loading a boar, a goddam mean big sonofabitch and he jumped out of the pickup four times and tore out my stockracks and rooted me in the stomach and I fell down and he bit John on the knee and he thought it was broken and so did I and the boar stood over in the far corner of the pen

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