FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
25
Ruth Daniels
Noise Level
I can't endure the city traffic, ring and blare of bell and horn.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
26
Ruth Daniels
Small Town Dying
Finch's Fine Furniture now a surplus store.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
28
Jay Duscard
Spring, 1965
The tallow truck winch draws my buckskin up the ramp.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
28
Jay Duscard
Good Buckskin Horse
Yellow trimmed in black; hipper than Eohippus.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
29
Jay Duscard
Southwestern Suite
Winter; Ice two inches thick.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
30
Jon Forrest Glade
Route 138
Near St. Stephens Mission the asphalt is stained.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
30
Jim Green
Hired Guns
All night long they lay forted on the bale stack.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
32
Jim Green
Mountain Likker
Usta be powerful likker around yu'd hitch up yr team a dogs.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
34
Jim Green
Bounty Hunter
Here's a black and white snapshot from my high school photo album.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
35
Jim Green
Branding Day
A reasonable beginning we started out the day.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
36
Drum Hadley
Going to Buy Some Heifers the death of Jesse Parker
We turn onto a dirt road.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
37
Drum Hadley
Cow Tradin' by the Rio Grande
Phil Statler had a bunch of cows sold to Ted Robb but some of the cows got the jimmys.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
38
Drum Hadley
Gathering Cattle for the Fish Creek Cattle Association Before the Snows Trap
A few snow flakes falling here, light, clean smell of the wind in the sage.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
40
Drum Hadley
Lookin' for a Place to Bed Down
Louis and Louise Taylor had been makin' all the bars.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
41
Drum Hadley
Grand Canyon
From this rimrock edge two courting ravens dive, twist, fallout ward?
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
42
Cynthia J. Harper
Shipwreck, New Mexico
It's hard to be a cowboy's kid.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
42
Jim Hammons
Practicality
If he humps up to buck step down.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
43
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Uncle
He sips coffee thick hands wrapped around the cup.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
44
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Drought Year
I dreamed I slept alone in a drought year and now I do.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
45
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Spring
Spring is here the first skunk lies dead.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
46
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Digging Potatoes
We divided it all, but my grandmother's shoes wouldn't fit.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
47
Linda Hussa
Love Letter
Wow! Was written in the dust on the bedside table.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
48
Linda Hussa
Nor a Borrower Be
New pickup, shiny, clean pulls into the yard no hay stacked three tiers high.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
50
Linda Hussa
Sewing Circle
Use the long curving needle better for speed and it's sharp.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
52
Linda Hussa
Waiting
Beside the table sitting the ivy has a new leaf since yesterday.