FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
40
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Rhubarb Pie
Fifty finds me a childless widow with a new man.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
42
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Pesto, On the Anniversary of Your Death
Eight years ago today I watched your coffin lowered into jumbo on a prairie hill.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
44
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Birthday Presents
So far I've unwrapped sunrise from twenty thousand days.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
47
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Jigsaw Dance
All evening your saw growls in the basement workshop you build.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
50
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Benediction to Sweat
When you enter me, I am black soil.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
51
Linda M. Hasselstrom
After Your Funeral
When I entered alone the home we built together.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
54
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Reading in bed
Neither or us ever did, saving the bed for sleep or love.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
56
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Deathbed Gift
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
58
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Widow's Homemade Sachet
Flowers from the girl's dresses, stripes from my son's pajamas.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
60
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Calf Sleep
I close my eyes, opening them on the other side.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
61
Linda M. Hasselstrom
How Women Laugh in the Company of Men
We never shout, never belly a laugh like those gushing dormitory halls.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
63
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Bitter Creek Junction
As usual, the shortcut proves longer than the map promised.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
1
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Prologue: The Hawk Hits the Window
My connections to the grasslands of western South Dakota may have begun long before my birth.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
11
Linda M. Hasselstrom
The Owl in the Dark
Pain nips at my neck and shoulder muscles, and words on the computer screen blur.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
21
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Sonata for Horses
When my mother married John, my world expanded enormously.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
33
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Blues for Shoveling Horse Manure
One spring day when I was twelve or thirteen years old, I rode Rebel over the Uncle Harold and Aunt Jo's to see his new horse colt.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
45
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Reckoning the Cost of a Dead Steer
The summer I turned 14, I developed into a tangle of hormones and growing muscles.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
57
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Lightning Strike the White Heifer
Last week, I made the five-hour drive to the ranch on Thursday afternoon to keep a Friday morning appointment with my doctor in Rapid City.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
71
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Looking for the Dark Buffalo Winter
Back in Cheyenne I am still angry at my parent's refusal to realize the seriousness of their situation.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
87
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Beekeeper
I barely noticed Margaret when we both rode the community bus to the larger town north of us.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
107
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Badger Business
Perched on limestone outcropping in a neighbor's pasture two miles west of my ranch house.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
119
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Looking for Death: The Deer Harvest
Jerry comes out of the barn with a dead deer over his shoulder and drops it on the tailgate of Rudolph's pickup.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
139
Linda M. Hasselstrom
The Young Cow Going Back to Grass
On a hot day in early July, I make my weekly drive north, from Cheyenne to the ranch.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
153
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Looking for the Light: The Elk in the Aspen
When I wake from the dream, it's nearly dawn.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
167
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Climbing Into the Bullpen
I call mother as soon as we return to Cheyenne and learn that she and my father went to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota while Jerry and I were in Jackson.