FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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A Charlie Creek Christmas & Other Wint'ry Tales of the West
FC 11 G-38
40
D.W. Groethe
Winter 1903
There lies Dakota, Bleak, Bitter cold.
A Charlie Creek Christmas & Other Wint'ery Tales of the West
FC 11 G-38
43
D.W. Groethe
Out My Window
Out my window A gatherin' of clouds Has hid the stars away.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
7
John C. Dofflemyer
Shrewd Angles
The high silence of the Sierra Nevada's spine & the Great underwater Basin of nothing.
Shrews Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
8
John C. Dofflemyer
Suppertime
It was always there on the land everywhere you looked.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
9
John C. Dofflemyer
New Farm Poem
Wordless the rythm runs in irregular patterns, but the clouds.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
10
John C. Dofflemyer
Dear Congressman
Out here in the California heartland beyond the peeling billboards that once announced every fruit and vegetable capital of the world.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
12
John C. Dofflemyer
Settling the San Joaquin
No floating conversations break the night, no steamship lights on the San Joaquin, no beaver dams, no snowmelt scent to pull.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
13
John C. Dofflemyer
Picking a Living
In the old days three layers wet burlap stitched with sisal twine fit a wine jug soaked.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
20
John C. Dofflemyer
No Black & White Western
A quiet Sunday morning between rains Don Edwards sings.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
21
John C. Dofflemyer
Just a Matter of Time
I dream I have to put the bay horse down to lurch awake in the muzzle blast as the old man collapses.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
14
John C. Dofflemyer
The Approach
Summer night cool lingers in the lungs as we dodge sunlight clearing ridges eastward.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
15
John C. Dofflemyer
Cows R Us
There is this notion that cows are dumb, or so I'm told often enough to note it.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
16
John C. Dofflemyer
Calling Cattle In
I wonder if Pavlov's dogs would stay their invitation to slobber at his bell & not be quicker baited to a canine dinner.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
17
John C. Dofflemyer
The Avery
As if half of Sulphur Peak slid away in some Great Rain & leveled-up the canyons with a high-elevation flatness.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
18
John C. Dofflemyer
Epitaph for the Wild
One should never tell where the fat fish pool, or big bucks play-- of sweet water springs or where Burr Clover tangles & mats itself.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
22
John C. Dofflemyer
The Aliens
In the Sixties I was a peace freak-- helped shut a campus down without firing a shot.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
24
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.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
26
John C. Dofflemyer
Earthtones
A man grows close to the ground in a circle of seasons.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
26
John C. Dofflemyer
Earthtones
She gathers cattle in her dreams laid near the same trails.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
26
John C. Dofflemyer
Earthtones
The American Dream of a Prosperous Peace begs redefinition.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
27
John C. Dofflemyer
Earthtones
How close we observe the smallest How well we engineer our eternities.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
27
John C. Dofflemyer
Earthtones
The Eternal Scenario of Infinite Possibility might suck some souls off to golden banks of video games.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
28
John C. Dofflemyer
Earthtones
The rattlesnake can't confine his spirit remove his imprint from human dreams, or erase the innocent designs.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
29
John C. Dofflemyer
wampum.com
The natives know the magic show is all an illusion that digitaly can't put rice in their bowl.
Shrewd Angles & Other Undertones
FC 11 D-16
30
John C. Dofflemyer
Barometric Pressure
Only fog & storm can deter the inevitable press of the herd agains old fences.