FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
176
William E. Bard
San Luis Pass
The wind was east, the wind was wild.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
177
Stanley E. Babb
Portrait of a Pirate
One summer afternoon old Jean Lafitte.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
179
Stanley E. Babb
High Noon
Blue is the sea: a glittering incredible blue.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
180
Siddie Joe Johnson
Sea-Hunger
I have a heart that is always looking for water.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
180
Margaret Bell Houston
Creole
There was a score of likely girls.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
184
Lena Whitaker Blakeney
Oklahoma Oil Field Pictures
Dewdrops glitter.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
185
Jennie Harris Oliver
Black Gold
Where shafts bite deep in a home hillside.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
186
A.E. Browning
Tulsa, Oklahoma
This is Tulsa.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
187
Therese Lindsey
The Oil Well
In Palo Pinto county, once.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
188
Violet McDougal
The Oil Fire
The lightning strikes, a sudden blinding flash.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
189
Will Ferrell
Not for Sale
There's a church-yard down at Ranger, just an acre.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
191
Sam Giesey
R.I.P. Indian Territory
Strange, mourning genii ranked across the sky.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
192
Glenn Ward Dresbach
The Needle's Eye
Neither a woman nor a man long poor.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
193
Lexie Dean Robertson
Aftermath
The boom has come and thrived and passed away.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
194
Lena Whitaker Blakeney
"Nouveau Riche"
I like your Mah Jongg set so much, I saw.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
198
Muna Lee
Prairie Sky
Sometimes for days one can forget the sky.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
198
Marilla Merriman Guild
Clipped Wings
Bright as a scarlet tanager above.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
199
Marilla Merriman Guild
The Ocotillo in Bloom
A flock of scarlet birds.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
199
Therese Lindsay
Radio
We have picked the pocket of silence.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
200
Grace Noll Crowell
The Aviator
Climb the glittering stalk of the wind.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
200
Goldie Capers Smith
Pilot
In stately rank beside my winging craft.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
201
Goldie Capers Smith
A Pilot to a Hunter
I cannot kill a splendid thing that flies.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
201
Goldie Capers Smith
Aviator's Wife
You came with a blinding flash of silver winds.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
202
Richard Leon Spain
The Hangar
Here are the wings that flashed in the brazen sun.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
203
Lilith Lorraine
To Will Rogers and Wiley Post
But yesterday they walked the common way.