FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
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Paul Zarzyski
After the Blue Northern, Another True Story
Frozen glint off moonlit bumper chrome.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
57
Paul Zarzyski
Rodeo-Road Founder: Highway Horseplay
Say horse were elk, and elk.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
59
Paul Zarzyski
Staircase
How can lover of buckers lament.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
61
Paul Zarzyski
Partner
As you hit ground off Staircase.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
63
Paul Zarzyski
The Night the Devil Danced with Me
A werewolf moon glares.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
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Paul Zarzyski
The Night I Hated Baxter Black
?I'm convalescing in a double-sawbuck.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
68
Paul Zarzyski
A Cowboy Reel
Ain't a hand been hatched since 1950.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
70
Paul Zarzyski
She Holds Her Favorite Cowboy Close
Wristwatch strapped over his cuff, a hand.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
71
Paul Zarzyski
The Bucking Horse Moon
A kiss for luck, then we'd let 'er buck.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
74
Paul Zarzyski
Pegasus, She Ain't
Easy-keeper; grass-bellied and grained.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
76
Paul Zarzyski
April Showers
Most bronco I've rode were satisfied to spite you with a fart.
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
78
Paul Zarzyski
The Roughstockoholic's "Just-Once-More-Last-One" Blues
What I would pledge for one more horse?
All This Way for the Short Ride
FC 11 Z-02
81
Paul Zarzyski
A Wild-'n'-Woolly Western Episode from Rodeo Rider Afterlife in the Erroneous, Erogenous Twilight Zone
Middle-aged and still 6-acres-crazy-18.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
1
Jane Webecke
Almost a Cowboy
He first tried to lasso old Bessie.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
3
Jane Webecke
Final Nip
Charles E. DeGraffenried was born in June.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
4
Jane Webecke
Jim DeGraffenried and Cockleburs
Watermelon and cockleburs grew side by side.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
6
Jane Webecke
Pappy's Cat, Houdini
My pappy had an ugly cat, a scrawny, mangy thing.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
7
Jane Webecke
A Little Ring
My brother Lee was older.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
10
Jane Webecke
Missouri Meals
Rhubarb and turnips.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
11
Jane Webecke
Digging to China
We were so poor our front porch view.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
14
Jane Webecke
Honeymoon
The cabin he rented was tiny.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
16
Jane Webecke
Recycled Water
When Dell needed water she hauled it.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
17
Jane Webecke
Donkey
The neighbor's dog was ornery and he barked all night.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
18
Jane Webecke
Dell's First Baking
My mother's biscuits were so light.
Almost a Cowboy: A Biography in Verse
FC 11 W-24
19
Jane Webecke
Bed-Buggy Baby
As he carried his first little baby.