FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
59
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Wooing the Wanton Mare
After so many years afoot I felt the mare would be mine
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
61
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Sunderance
I wondered what would creak and groan, a moan so wholly human I searched the frozen trees for sound, for soul or shadow that unbound would tell me who was there, invisible in April's early morning air.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
62
John C. Dofflemyer
The Aliens
In the Sixties, I was a peace freak helped shut a campus down without firing a shot.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
64
John C. Dofflemyer
One, April
The only sense I can perceive is that the threshold opens vast that some shall enter less na?ve where truth is known but never asked.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
65
John C. Dofflemyer
To Have a Man
Doubt she's ever needed a man for much since she was twelve
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
66
John C. Dofflemyer
Twenty-Sixth Winter
I've wanted to squeeze despair into thin air, discharge bold charity with my Remington muzzle to her ear
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
68
Tami Haaland
After This
The rain came through we didn't smell it coming on the wind because of the smoke.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
69
Tami Haaland
Finding the Trail
It's there behind that first patch of huckleberries, between Douglas fir and scrubby yew.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
70
Tami Haaland
August
My cousin was five. We walked with her to the granaries to ask the men if they needed food, to ask if they needed water to drink.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
71
Donald Hall
Names of Horses
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul sledges of cordwood for drying through spring and summer
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
72
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Haying: A Four-Part Definition
When I was fourteen, my father bought a new John Deer 420 for me to drive. I'm thirty-four.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
74
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Butchering the Crippled Heifer
First: Aim the pistol at her ear. Stand close.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
76
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Beef Eater
I have been eating beef hearts all my life.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
78
Linda M. Hasselstrom
What the Falcon Said
Flat on his back, feathers bloody, surrounded by drooling cats, the young falcom hissed, clacked his beak, clawed air.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
79
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Hands
The words won't come right from my hands in spring. The fields are full of baby calves, tufts of hay, bawling cows.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
81
Linda M. Hasselstrom
My Last Will and Testament
Being of sound body and mind, I speak to you who will inherit, though you were never part of me.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
83
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Coffee Cup Caf?
Soon as the morning chores are done, cows milked, pigs fed, kids packed off to school, it's down to the caf? for more coffee and some soothing conversation.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
85
Linda Hussa
Give Us Rain!
Don't we wait for rain in this dry country licking down sweet wild kisses
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
87
Linda Hussa
Swans
I let the swans float gently on the blue gray sheen of the lake through my secret wish is to be among them grooming my own slim feathers.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
88
Linda Hussa
The Man Shoeing a Horse and His Little Girl
He whirled those blue eyes on me flat blue eyes bottomless eyes
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
89
Linda Hussa
Playing at Doctor
Poor old broken legged ewe, the flop of it wrings my stomach,
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
90
Linda Hussa
In the Evening Autumn
As I rode out to check cows calving the light came across the meadow low soft and in it I could see a shimmering blanket of cobwebs moving in the breeze like the surface of water.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
91
Linda Hussa
I Fix the Fence, the Fence Fixes Me
The fence I patched ran away rolled a week ahead. Ahead. My horse along for compnay, we sang my horse and me
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
93
Linda Hussa
Dear Child
We gathered the desert in June to brand calves born since turn-out to move them up to the mountain with the feed.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
96
Linda Hussa
Love Letters
Wow! was written in the dust on the bedside table