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
97
Tony Johnston
So May Horses
As sundown the old man stands alone and thinks of the horses, dead and gone
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
98
Tony Johnston
The Barn
In the black barn, swallows sleep like old songs.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
99
Tony Johnston
Whispers
Year after year, the cowboy whispers all he knows into the ear of his horse.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
100
Tony Johnston
To the Wild Pony
I dip my handsito the bin and lift them full of oats
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
101
Maxine Kumin
Amanda is Shod
The way the cooked shoes sizzle dropped in a pail of cold water the way the coals in the portable forge die out like hungry eyes the way the nails go in aslant each one the tip of a snake's tongue
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
102
Maxine Kumin
The Agnostic Speaks to her Horse's Hoof
Come, frog, reveal yourself.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
103
Maxine Kumin
Thinking of Death and Dogfood
Amanda, you'll be going to Alpo or to Gaines when you run out of luck
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
105
Maxine Kumin
Feeding Time
Sunset. I pull on parka, boots, mittens, hat, cross the road to the paddock.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
107
Linda McCarriston
Le Coursier De Jeanne D'Arc
You know that they burned her horse before her.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
110
Linda McCarriston
A Thousand Genuflections
Winter mornings when I call her, out of falling snow she trots into view, her tail and mane made flame by movement
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
111
Linda McCarriston
Girl From Lynn Bathes Horse!!
1100 pounds, more or less, the mare high-steps a trot on a short circle--two feet of line from the hand of the Tenement Kid who never outgrew the wish to be able to do this to the head of the horse
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
113
Linda McCarriston
Bucked
Balanced for that instant in midair
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
114
Linda McCarriston
On Horseback (for McFauns)
We are only walking. This is not the romance of horseback riding
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
115
Linda McCarriston
Riding Out at Evening
At dusk, everything blurs and softens.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
117
Linda McCarriston
With the Horse in the Winter Pasture
Zero degrees, no wind, and barely the January sun has begun to ripen.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
118
Wallace McRae
We Never Rode the Judiths (for Ian Tyson)
We never rode the Judiths when we were grey-wolf wild.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
119
Wallace McRae
Sold to the Highest Bidder
Sold to the highest bidder! The gavel crashes down.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
120
Wallace McRae
Grandmother's French Hollyhocks
They were probably planted there by the gate or along the fence of the watergap lot
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
121
Wallace McRae
A Woman's Place (for Karla Gambill)
A woman's place is in the home. That always has made sense. They're just not built for riding broncs, nor fixin' barbwire fence.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
123
Wallace McRae
Malcolm and the Stranglers
I'm a fair, upstanding citizen, honest, trustingly true-blue, I joined a vigilante crew.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
125
Wallace McRae
Riders' Block
Tonight they're trying, once again with pencils poised, impatient pen, to scribe the ultimate in verse.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
127
Wallace McRae
Things of Intrinsic Worth
Remember that sandrock on Emmells Crick where Dad carved his name in 'thirteen?
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
128
Joel Nelson
Breaker in the Pen
There's a thousand year old story involving beast and men.
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
131
Joel Nelson
The Shadow on the Cutback
History wrote his epitaph when barbed-wire cut the range, while he was but an embryo adjusting to the change
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writ.
Robert McDowell
FC 11 M-54
132
Joel Nelson
The Men Who Ride No More
Bronc to breakfast calendars hang fading on the walls there's a lost and aimless wandering through corridors and halls