FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
313
James Wilson
A Cowhand's Dream
Out of the moonlit winter dark
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
84
Richard Dunlap
That Ain't My Cow
My partner in that cattle business and I
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
3
Elizabeth Ebert
The Swamper from Trail's End Bar
Ed was trailin' cows with a Texas crew.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
7
Elizabeth Ebert
The Story of Cyclone Creek
Cyclone Creek runs into the Grand.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
11
Elizabeth Ebert
The Coming of Age of Billy Braddock
Young Billy Braddock was just a stray.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
15
Elizabeth Ebert
Store Candy
"Don't go," she said, "We'll do with what we have."
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
19
Elizabeth Ebert
An Old Cowboy's Prayer
I never thought too much about Heaven, Lord.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
21
Elizabeth Ebert
True Grit
The crowd had all left the rodeo ground.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
25
Elizabeth Ebert
Make Me a Windmill
When I am dead.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
27
Elizabeth Ebert
Summerfallow
Today I drive a chariot down the field.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
29
Elizabeth Ebert
Going Through Calgary
We'd been on a trip, just the two of us.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
31
Elizabeth Ebert
You Make Me Do Darned Mad
You make me so darned mad.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
33
Elizabeth Ebert
Adult Education
I'm enrolling in all kinds of classes this year.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
35
Elizabeth Ebert
Tomorrow's the Day
Tomorrow's the day that I will begin.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
37
Elizabeth Ebert
The Car
My husband bought a car for me today?
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
39
Elizabeth Ebert
Some Women Get Roses
Some women get roses!
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
41
Elizabeth Ebert
The Cemetery
We have a small town cemetery.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
43
Elizabeth Ebert
It Takes Real Love
It takes real love to kiss a man.
Grand River Tales and Other Poems
FC 11 E-13
45
Elizabeth Ebert
Song from the Day the Pump Broke
We fought the water pipes all day long.
The Buckskin Mare
FC 11 B-45
4
Baxter Black
Runnin' Wild Horses
The chase, the chase, the race is on.
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
46
Laurel Speer
Two Of The Most Useless People In Tucson
The poet and Tonto sit atop mechanical bikes in the gym. The poet is having a bad day. "Nothing makes a difference. Sixty years in the mud playing patticake with adobe bricks."
purple eyes, smoke, spirit, fool
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
45
Barbara Shirk Parish
Grandmother's Land
Hers is a land unsettled -- touched only by the sundown and the dawn; a trumpet vine unites her house with earth while fallow fields lie dreaming of the seed.
plains, stretch, imaginations, spirits, mountain
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
44
Barbara Shirk Parish
Night Legacy
In the one-roomed house of the Germans the women cannot retire: they share with the men the talk of the ocean journey -- the unfinished work on the prairie;
rivers, midwives, winter, typhoid, grow old
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
44
Barbara Shirk Parish
Reasons For Rain
We gather today on the doorstone as the thunderstorm begins. Grandad is speaking: "This rain is Holy Water blessing our fields and sowing its river seeds. It is an answered prayer:
German, terrible drouth, rain, pony, cattle
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
43
Spence Keralis
The Rabbit Sellers
From a chicken wire cage on the bed of an old Ford, the man pulled a struggling doe. The lady patted her hands together, bovine eyes twinkling. He took her money and put it in a cigar
cab, dinner, redeemed, rabbits, smile