FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
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16
Linda Hussa
Broken Bowl
A Paiute woman sat here on this sand where cattails of worn brow velvet.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
17
Linda Hussa
Dear Child
We gathered the desert in June to brand calves born since turn-out.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
19
Linda Hussa
The Match
Through a child's eyes I see twilight on the desert.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
21
Linda Hussa
Kick the Can
Music of a child's night game plays on shadowed grass.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
22
Linda Hussa
Horse Runner
He rides in darkness fooling 'round.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
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24
Linda Hussa
Mary
They said she lived "out East" four days by a wagon.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
28
Linda Hussa
The Cherry Tree
Halfway down the field it grew along the ditch bank.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
29
Linda Hussa
Love Letters
"Wow!" was written in the dust on the bedside table.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
30
Linda Hussa
Winter Night in the Bruno's - Gerlach, Nevada
She watches the door open, cold wind and snow swirl around boots.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
31
Linda Hussa
Uncle Cicero, My Hero
Aunt Josie was a disagreeable woman.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
34
Linda Hussa
Homesteader, Poor and Dry
The world was bone dry.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
37
Linda Hussa
John Nobel's Rye
There's this field, see, right next to ours.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
38
Linda Hussa
Not a Borrower Be
New pickup, shiny, clean pulls into the yard.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
40
Linda Hussa
Sewing Circle
Use the long curving needle better for speed and it's sharp.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
41
Linda Hussa
One Day Closer to Rain
Dry land plants, grasses, clover dehydrated.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
43
Linda Hussa
In This Moment
I felt the blow somewhere inside that is heart and chest.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
44
Linda Hussa
Mid-Season
This piece of time between summer and fall asks for its own name.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
45
Linda Hussa
Waiting
Beside the table sitting the ivy has a new leaf since yesterday.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
46
Linda Hussa
Jars of Indian Summer
Down dark cellar stairs Wild Plum jam -- jars of an afternoon on the mountain.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
48
Linda Hussa
Under the Hunter Moon
I slip the rifle sling over my shoulder and step into the silence of dawn.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
49
Linda Hussa
The Barren Mare
Filly foal not considered for a saddle horse.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
50
Linda Hussa
The Widow Olsen
So we passed this neat little ranch on the edge of Catlow Valley.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
51
Linda Hussa
The End
We decided on cremation.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
52
Linda Hussa
Storms of Winter
Tempest wind, you whip iron chains across my back.
Where the Wind Lives: Poems from the Great Basin
FC 11 H-31
53
Linda Hussa
A Birth
Across the ditch she turned and stands.