FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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The Bail-Out Plan
FC 11 H-44
1
Yvonne Hollenbeck
The Bail-out plan
A bail-out plan in Ag-Land is to feed the livestock hay, and not the type of bail-out plan we hear about today.
Harrowing Adventures of an Old-Time Cowboy and Sheriff
FC 11 H-40
Carl Hansen
prose, edited by Clarence S. and Joan N. Adams
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
28
Peggy Godfrey
Living the Metaphor
Spring Open the stop-cock on the sand trap
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
29
Peggy Godfrey
Gonna
Reckon I been farming, running cattle all my life I hear you are a poet, Well, I know you'll like my wife.
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
30
Peggy Godfrey
Newcommer's Orientation II
You come to this sanctuary with the trappings of priesthood draped over you
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
32
Peggy Godfrey
Don't ask me!
How do you know when a calf will be born? What time do ya come in the house?
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
43
Peggy Godfrey
Like Carlsbad Caverns and friends take a poet's heart
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
41
Peggy Godfrey
Giving away a kidney
Would you do that? Comes in a familiar-sounding voice
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
41
Peggy Godfrey
Out in the Open
It happened in the back seat on the way to eat shrimp
kidney, Doris
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
48
Peggy Godfrey
My mama's lost her mind
It's okay she can't find the nails to nail me anymore or the hammer to bash my friends, my ideas, my life
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
49
Peggy Godfrey
Good Morning!
In the company of sleepers you didn't realize you were sleeping in a deep coma
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
50
Peggy Godfrey
My Mama was a war zone
I thought it was my fault maybe she did, too Musta been what I said
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FC 11 G-34
51
Peggy Godfrey
Mama I
A totally irrational fear seizes me the way a startling night sound
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FC 11 G-34
52
Peggy Godfrey
Mama II
Sorting through boxes and boxes of costume jewelry
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
53
Peggy Godfrey
Mama III
It has the feel of politics my being in my hometown
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
58
Peggy Godfrey
Alligator farm adventure
We need a gator wrestler said Irwin on the phone
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
62
Paul Zarzyski
Focus
It's been a practival consideration this plan to purchsae a new car
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
64
Peggy Godfrey
One last look backward: Don't tell SKip
I work for Skip eleven of his last heaviest first-calf heifers are out in my corral
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
65
Peggy Godfrey
Licking my wounds
Over!! The nearly-year-long back surgery the courtroom kind: to get George off my back
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
66
Peggy Godfrey
To whom it may concern
Don't tell me what I'm worth you don't know
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
67
Peggy Godfrey
Advice
COmes now George to get his stuff by order of the court he cannot drag his heels this time
divorce
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FC 11 G-34
67
Peggy Godfrey
Counterfeit
The counterfeit has spoken under oath and from the stand thoughout our six-year marriage he was the only hand.
Stretch Marks
FC 11 G-34
71
Peggy Godfrey
Loaves of Bread
Sad brown eyes and trembling lips tol.d thirg grade stories of teacher's irritation, impatience, harshness
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FC 11 G-34
72
Peggy Godfrey
Holy Mystery
Is there within wind forgiveness for hands tha pulled fruit from its origins
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FC 11 G-34
73
Peggy Godfrey
For Aaron
Your poetry pulls me back to the nutrient soup of Creation