FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
88
Scott Preston
The Grass is Greedier
They migrate to the mountain desert lands With stunningn views as their guide Then convert their Palm Springs equity in To square footage on a hillside.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
90
Greg Keeler
Post-Western Blues
I've got the post-western blues. I've got llamas in my pasture where a field of crop disasters never grew. I've got post-western blues.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
91
Greg Keeler
Coyote's Wilderness Lobby
Dog, Pony and Coyote went to Capital Hill to lobby. Together, Dog and Pony lobbied for dog and pony shows.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
92
Jim Green
Hired Guns
All night long they lay forted on the bale stack wrapped in parkas and robes against the driving snow.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
93
Jim Green
Bounty Hunter
Here's a black and white snapshot from my Highschool photo album showing a grey 1950's Land Rover with two dead cougars on the hood.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
94
J.E. Grant
2,4,6,8 Everybody Litigate: Environmental Solutions, California style
Essay
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
97
Charles Potts
Slow Down Columbia, Slow Down (With no apologies to Woodie Guthrie, much less Arlo)
There are still 23 miles of free flowing Columbia River water in the state of Washington.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
98
Joe Greig
Rock Creek
I shut my eyes to a sprawling plant Hovering over a sign that reads U.S. Steel.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
100
Jay Dusard
Southwestern Suite
Ice two inches thick on the horse trough. Brown colt bucks; great to be alive.
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
101
Jay Dusard
Comeback
Wet winter and spring. Check both sides of any fence. Tell much difference?
Dry Crik Review (Double Environmental Issue): fall/winter 1992/93, 2 copies
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
101
Jay Dusard
Homo Herbivorus
No rare steak, much gas. Vegetarianism: it's own punishment.
Poems from Dry Creek
John Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-15
1
The Color of Trout
I envision wrapping fish with poetry and Gutenberg's genius-- fonts reversed and the ink drying on scales.
Poems from Dry Creek
John Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-15
2
The Aliens
In the Sixties, I was a peace freak-- helped shut a campus down without firing a shot.
Poems from Dry Creek
John Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-15
4
Four Creeks
The great leveler in a frying pan upon a camp stove or off the mountains into an inland sea floating food and freight.
Poems from Dry Creek
John Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-15
5
In Line at the Bank of America
Small town of Exeter, main street muraled with round, dark cars parked diagonally in the late '20s when Granddad was young.
Poems from Dry Creek
John Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-15
6
Dear Congressman
Out here in the California heartland beyond the peeling billboards that once announced every fruit and vegetable capital of the world.
Poems from Dry Creek
John Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-15
9
Solstice 2005
Day's cattle work done, we sip December beer to recount the numbers onto paper lest we forget and search acres of future.
Poems from Dry Creek
John Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-15
10
Transparency
Only a politician could borrow a beaver lid for a photograph to receive an award in a roomful of cattlemen.
Poems from Dry Creek
John Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-15
11
Marionettes, 2006
Let them spend their way to Washington-- to alabaster banquets of buttered lobster garnished with garlic and parsley, let them sip ambrosial nectar.
Pioneer Poetry and Prose
FC 11 S-67
6
Rhoda Cosgrave Sivell
Come with me to the old range
Come with me to the old range just for an hour or so;
Pioneer Poetry and Prose
FC 11 S-67
7
Rhoda Cosgrave Sivell
Calgary, Queen of the golden west
I never loved the city life.
Pioneer Poetry and Prose
FC 11 S-67
8
Rhoda Cosgrave Sivell
The old Saskatchewan
Down where the river is winding its deep and lonely way,
Pioneer Poetry and Prose
FC 11 S-67
9
Rhoda Cosgrave Sivell
The wolf hunter
At the dark of evening, when the shadows fall
Pioneer Poetry and Prose
FC 11 S-67
11
Rhoda Cosgrave Sivell
The Chinook
The moon aross the hills rose cold last night,
Pioneer Poetry and Prose
FC 11 S-67
12
Rhoda Cosgrave Sivell
My prairie flower
Lithe as a reed that the wind doth blow, and graceful in form was she;