FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
113
Paul Zarzyski
Love the color of trout
Smoldering, after rain all day, teh sun sets fire to saffron yellow logs the barn hunders on.
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
114
Paul Zarzyski
For the stories
Deep blue backdropping the bucolic autumn embroidery of sumac, maples, spruce bordering dewy hay meadow sparkling beneath the sun rising
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
116
Paul Zarzyski
Light
He cherished the chunk of burled apple bucked from the trunk of his grandfather's oldest tree
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
118
Paul Zarzyski
Firewood
A scarilege against my bule-collar Catholic manhood, I not longer cut my own winter supply.
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
120
Paul Zarzyski
The antler tree
Late at night I braid the helix from floor to ceiling: skeletal thicket of deciduous horns, pillar
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
122
Paul Zarzyski
Measuring
Maybe today she'll know me, the alfalfa, brome, timothy, and horse aroma I track in with a limp to this rest home.
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
124
Paul Zarzyski
1998
The first year I ever lost five dear friends to death, I did not squeeze off a single shot, nor set a single hook or trap.
Buck, Blanton, Richard, Ray, Lila Mae, Larry Holland
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
126
Paul Zarzyski
Flashback
Please fill my ear with softer sound, I wish, lifting a thrift store conch shell one week after the crash and still cringing to the jagged-edged noise of chain collision, to pain in the rotator cuff
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
128
Paul Zarzyski
For one micro-chronon of time
Not the collisions and mirror image story-caving-in-upon-story collapsings of all hope
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
130
Paul Zarzyski
Bless the gentle
Try to imagine this sad planet saner graced only by their kind, not one throught idel enought to betray garden and art, to shirk play and freedom
Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
FC 11 Z-03
132
Paul Zarzyski
One sweet evening just this year
Sundown rolling up its softest nap of autumn light over the foothills, grass bales stacked tow tiers above the '69 Ford cab
Cowboy's night before Christmas
FC 11 M-57
Waddie Mitchell
Cowboy's night before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas and out on teh spread wehad fnished the chores adn was goin' to bed
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
Stewart Edward White
A Corner in horses
prose
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
24
O. Henry
The Pimienta pancakes
prose
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
34
anonymous
When bob got throwed
That time when Bob got throwed I thought I sure would bust.
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
37
A.B. Guthrie
The moon dance skunk
prose
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
46
Paul St. Pierre
Ol Antoine's wooden overcoat
prose
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
70
S. Omar Barker
Champs at the chuckabug
prose
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
84
S. Omar Barker
Rain on the range
When your boots are full of water and your hat brim's all a-drip, and the rain makes little rivers dribblin' down your horse's hip,
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
86
Emerson Hough
Science at heart's desire
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A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
99
Mike Logan
Ranch truck
A ranch truck's like a rancher. Don't dress up fit t' kill.
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
102
Charles M. Russell
prose
A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
107
Will Rogers
It was just a habit
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A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
122
Alfred Henry Lewis
How Jack Rainey quit
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A Roundup of cowboy humor
Ted Stone
FC 11 S-66
131
B.M. Bower
When the cook fell ill
prose