FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
50
Virginia Bennett
Treading On Sacred Ground
Swarming out of the valleys and canyons, like ants, I watch them leave. Bearing their precious burden: trophies and booty displayed for all.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
51
Ruth Daniels
Noise Level
I can't endure the city traffic, ring and blare of bell and horn. The clattering, hurrying, bustling.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
52
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Along Sun-Warmed Rocks
At dusk along sun-warmed rocks I bathe, knowing nothing, nowhere is cleaner, purer than this water.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
53
B. Lynne McCarthy
New Wave Environmentalism
An ill-begotten storm blew across The plains from the coasts, And howled along the wires pulled taut Between our cedar posts.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
56
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Stolen Moments
Stolen moments, I walk the night streets alone, away from city lights til pavement turns to gravel, to grass, I stretch.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
57
John B. Fincher
Spirit Buck
There is a special place I visit everytime I get the chance, nestled in Horsehead Canyon on the backside of Bar D Ranch.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
60
Charles Potts
Leon Trosky's Dues are Refused by the Cascade Chapter of the Washington Sierra Club
Not enough axe murders to go around? Mexican tourist card expired?
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
61
Joe Greig
Million Dollar Farmers?
Essay
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
66
Katie Kidwell
Four Leaf Clover
I have a little barnyard where grows the four leaf clover and lucky are the animals.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
67
Katie Kidwell
"Whose Bones are These?"
Whose bones are these beneath these trees? Are they but signs of anarchy.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
68
Bob Bird
The Last Straw
Gonna gather all my cattle, Cause it seems the time has come. After that I'll start on The remuda, one by one.
Dry Crik Review: Double Environmental Issue
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
70
Mike Logan
Hollywood and Vine
Them movie moguls like to shoot Out here where they can see the blueness of the Big Skye And mountains high and free.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
71
Elsa Bell
Sunflowers, Nebraska
For miles, the wires between the poles sag against the sky. I reach a town. Slowing the six blocks for children who never appear.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
72
Shadd Piehl
Storm Front
The colt noses the water, Paws, muddies the creek. At my insistance he gathers And crosses in a great lunge.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
73
Neil Meili
Go Gently
When you break horses and break land you end up with broken horses and broken land.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
74
Sue Wallis
Keeper of the Winds
Aeolus, by the Gods, was given free rein over winds He can hold them, or he can send them forth He used to call his home an island off of Greece.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
75
Sue Wallis
Tim Roof Symphony
When another likely droughty summer comes slilpping past a too-mild winter When fairly skimpy snowpack statistics back up the fears of old-time mystics.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
76
Jerry Wright
Perspective
They view me with contempts Rapist in Paradise Cloaked in hideous armor.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
77
Jerry Wright
Communion
Palomino plaited pigtails bobbing in the Kansas breeze she offers the bay filly a feast.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
78
Jerry Wright
Sentenced
He grew weary of the burden red ledger ink with black disaster flirtin' livin' on the brink of failure.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
80
C.E. Tuenge
Smell the Wind-- See the Air
Wind bent sky Water-mist falling Torrent runs forever down.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
82
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Mammals and Winter Behavior
Essay
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
85
Linsa M. Hasselstrom
Uncle
He sips coffee thick hands wrapped around the cup. "This generation ain't got no corner on violence." His sunburned hands, cracked and broken, clench into fists.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
86
Charles Potts
Make way for Daniel Boone
Is there anyone left unaware That the planet has been poisoned, Polluted, and permanently desecrated By the rapcious hands of man?
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
87
Charles Potts
A Monkey in the High 90's
Faced with a barrage of excited chattering, I want so hard to believe there is A breakthrough just around the corner.