FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

The meaning of intimacy

Not reasong, but romantic prehistoric instinct coaxes my whiskered cheek to the bristled

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Birds in the stove

Twice I tried to shin the rusty steel well casing, 25 feet of vertical cannon barrel

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Little noises

Thatched roof of dead grass over their honeycombed lair sinkholing

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Morning talk show

Mister cricket chirps from the kindling

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Heart's dressage

With snorts and cowpony caprioles our four horses pitch

Western Poetry: In this land of little rain

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

The garnet moon

After forking alfalfa to the horses, you sit with your first cup, first Tesuque sun easing through windows in LaBajada red adobe

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Las Ballenas de Bahia Magdalena

Off Baja, the boy manning our skiff calls this mamma gray whale

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Wings

I clench his feathered legs together like a jilted suitor clings to a limp bouquet.

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Playing favorites

The great horned owl quartet hatch of volumptous mums, tufts of downy gray gawked at us all spring

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Flight

I felt a little miffed that first morning the great horned owl did not return with her fledgling to their nest in my hollow balm-of-Gilead tree, to their tabernacle facing east

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Bucks in rut

Too young to hunt, but old enought to relish killing, I dwelled on the animal world during nights of insomnia at the camp

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Carnivore

After reducing the muledeer buck to meat, to one freezer shelf of venison, load the waste, a snowboy apple box full of backfat, bone, bloodshot scrap

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

This Poem, this predator

Why was it not pure beauty that caught my eye, the Muse's blessing, incognito, as usual,

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Montana's Mistral

It pulls in unannounced with blue smoke pouring from under the hood and a truckful of stolen luggage

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Equine Houdini

Medieval torture chamber grate of pipe crosshatched with angle iron spiked with ring-shanks to stringers

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Putting the Rodeo try into cowboy poetry

Let's begin with the wildest landscape, space inhabited by far more of them than ourown kind and , yes, we are talking other hearts, other stars.

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Living in snake country

First the barber sickling fuzz around the mole, electric clippers cool and heavy against my neck.

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

The day the war began

I fed the god and he was glad, a bald eagle lit in the red willows ignited by a sinking winter sun, and prairie chickens swept low

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Old sorrell mare turning more and more roan

She would not have stood still for this just a year ago, at 23, without halter

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Feeding the creatures I used to eat

Long-stemmed roses, slow romantic kiss, sweet dark chocolate in heart-shaped boxes, Hallmark cards we call valentines

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Tender

What I would gladly give in silver certificate minutes, or gold hour tokens, to truly believe

FC 11 Z-03

Paul

Tracks

Outside my picture widow, a jack rabbit stakes his claim to the brush I stacked last fall for winter burning.

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

I believe

I have lived other lives, maybe the most recent, and most often, as a woman stalked throughout time.

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

FC 11 Z-03

Paul Zarzyski

Shoes

What atrocities befell my Slavic ancestors during the war, I cannot say.

Holocasut Museum