The Legend of Sam Storey

Those here
have a
strong
frontier
spirit
they keep
close
communion
between

spirit
and
land.

Horses don't
usually
run
rapids
Class IV.

Pioneers
called it
Devil's Jump.

A load of
canoers
dumped
in a
downpour.

Sam Storey
jumped
to their
rescue
from high
above

from the
O & W
Bridge,

built for
lumber-and-coal
hauling
railroads
long
abandoned.

"No damn
horse can
get up
there!"

"Yes sir,
Sam Storey
did."

The old
moonshiner
knows,

with a
need
of
seclusion
and
haste,

He saw
it all.

The only
trace,

a tool,
a pipe
from
a
moonshiner's
still.

So, is
the

Legend
of
Sam
Storey.

Copyright 2005 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist