FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Poems from Where the West Begins
FC 11 H-25
26
Bill Hooton, Jr.
What Fence Pliers Do
Low cost boundary protection.
The Painter: A Western Odyssey
FC 11 J-08
Rhett S. James
Book of Bill Hill's paintings and Rhett S. James poetry
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
11
Sally Bates
Ride to the Cattle
The ashes lie smirking; The hearth holds its tongue.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
12
Virginia Bennett
For Gramps
So, now its come down to this: You live on in a picture on the wall.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
14
Virginia Bennett
The Tough Goodbye
He stood there by the windmill, and gazed out over his spread.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
16
Doris Bircham
Coffee Row
They gather each morning at the back of the old store.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
17
Doris Bircham
Weaning Time
She rides with the men as morning sun cuts a path along the horizion's edge.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Rambler's Notebook: 50 Years of Scribblin': Songs & Poems from the Road
FC 11 A-16
57
Singin' Sam Agins
Sleeper Queen
Sleeper Queen, Sleeper Queen, she came knockin' at the door near Abilene.
Rambler's Notebook: 50 Years of Scribblin': Songs & Poems from the Road
FC 11 A-16
60
Singin' Sam Agins
The Old Home Twenty
Big Old Tom had the hammer down. A dead-headin into that shaky city town.
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
18
Doris Bircham
After the Funeral
My aunt and I are drinking coffee with him in his kitchen.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
19
Doris Bircham
Leaving
You were hanging diapers two rows of whites.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
20
Afton Bloxham
What Counts Most
I often wish that I could be like my friend Carolyn, for she is strong and she can do.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
21
Judy Blunt
Sisters
One whine shy of a forced march.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
22
Judy Blunt
Josephine Hall
She got a good turn-out as funerals go.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
23
Judy Blunt
At the Stockman Bar, Where the Men Fall in Love, and the Women Just Fall
Black Velvet shots and water back.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
24
Judy Blunt
When Cowboys Cry
In a nearly shadowed corner.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
26
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Gathering Mint
He woke quiet, ate potatoes and eggs sitting alone on a cottonwood stump in the sun.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
27
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Purple Tulips
After a weekend of Shakespeare.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
28
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Eight Rabbits
Eight rabbits hang skinned in pale spring sun.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
29
Jane Candia Coleman
Flowering Almond
You feed the turtles cat food at four o'clock each afternoon.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
30
Jane Candia Coleman
Old Pete
First light. The old mule.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
31
Jane Candia Coleman
Poor Will's Widow
Broad-faced as a cow, with bony knees.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
32
Jane Candia Coleman
Sandhill Cranes
We sit on the orange-striped couch.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
34
Peggy Simson Curry
When Words First Spoke to Me
When words first spoke to me not out of human mouths.
Poetry of Ranch Women
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women
Teresa Jordan
FC 11 J-10
36
Peggy Simson Curry
The Hunt
High country, man's country in October, hunter's acres.
Poetry of Ranch Women