FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
54
Linda Hussa
The Man Shoeing a Horse and His Little Girl
He whirled those blue eyes on me flat blue eyes.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
56
Bill Jones
American Hero
A reluctant war story it came in yearly pieces.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
58
Bill Jones
Luck of the draw
There were a thousand white eyed leaping broncos
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
60
Teresa Jordan
Looking Back
The secret place is gone.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
62
Teresa Jordan
Old Anne
The arm that hadn't healed right would not bend; to hold a hair brush.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
63
Greg Keeler
Do Not Ask
Do not ask for whom they moo or why they stand and chew and chew.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
64
Greg Keeler
Llamas in the Landscape
And what are these spattering calico over this valley of the Horse Shoe Hills.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
65
Greg Keeler
Coyote's Wilderness Lobby
Dog, Pony and Coyote went to Capital Hill to lobby.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
66
Greg Keeler
What's Left of the West
Manifest Destiny ain't had a rest; Since Horace Greeley said, "Young Man, go west."
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
68
Mike Logan
Temptation
You think you know temptation.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
70
Jo-Ann Mapson
Rock-Solid Women -- For Luisina
Gemma's dead, but her presence scrubs the kitchen to a sheen blinding as resurrection.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
72
Jo-Ann Mapson
Time Before Winter
Longing grows anywhere, its nearest relative the thistle.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
74
Jo-Ann Mapson
Poor Man's Silver -- For Sultan
This is not the way it's supposed to end, you down in the pasture, fighting twisted gut.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
75
Jo-Ann Mapson
Notes on Aging
Beneath me he slows, halts, cocks a hind leg and dozes.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
76
Rod McQueary
for souls
Perhaps, He said, it's not a man's heart or mind; That drives him down to surging sea.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
78
Rod McQueary
Work for Food
Where highway 93 and 40 cross a 4-way stop an overpass; I interrupt my hurry, north.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
80
Rod McQueary
Point of No Return
Loading possessions; Starting for the journey; Go and stay.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
82
Rod McQueary
No Apologies
Somewhere along the way; You have noticed warnings; Caught a dead scent whiff; Of old miseries.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
84
Larry McWhorter
The Panhandle
Where the short grass struggles daily, Racing wind to claim each rain.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
85
Neil Meili
The Lonely Men
Their little dark houses still dotted the prairie when I was growing up.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
86
Neil Meili
Memories of Three or Four
I remember being nestled in that old ranch kitchen, deep in the warmth of washday; Monday.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
86
Neil Meili
Threshing Time
I remember at Christmas getting a great toy threshing machine.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
88
Neil Meili
The Crow
Two boys and crow at 50 yards.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
89
Wayne Nelson
The Lesson
He was grouchier than usual that day.
Maverick Western Verse
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-09
91
Jennifer Olds
The Murder OF Crows
Shots rang out and birds spun down like rain, a heavy black hail of crows.