FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Kathy Ogren

Coming Full Circle in the Land of Northern Mysteries

Essay.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Justin V. Bishop

Fences, Barbed Wire & Walls

I saw an old man in a window in Sterling, Colorado, An old man with no teeth and his eyes all rheumy and gray, Just past the slim shadows that the barren trees cast on the sidewalk In his front yard, and I wondered what he thought of that day.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Wallace McRae

Western Pleasure

He rode into the show ring with his shirttail hanging out. Wasn't packin' any silver on his track. To all the horse show hangers-on there wasn't any doubt; His saddle pad was once a gunny sack.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

John C. Dofflemyer

Bad News Home

While I sleep on Rod & Sue's floor near Deeth, Nevada before the Gathering, a three weight cross-bred Mexican steer is taken down afoot on Dry Creek four miles upstream from the Kaweah in California.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-2o

Rod McQueary

Poached Steer...for John and Chuck

"Gooks," the deputy says. We stand staring angry over impotent bones, empty rib cage scattered tacks and flattened grass a dead face with soft flesh beneath the jaw bone cut away to get out the tongue.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

John C. Dofflemyer

Near Mote, Nevada

the landscape blurs again, unmeasured Highway 80 miles away from the Stockman's coffeeshop, late Monday morning after the Gathering where he recited "Western Pleasure." I fell back into our watering eyes, as my forgotten rig ran, idled warm in the icy parking lot.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Virginia Bennett

As You Ride

As you ride the high sierra with your packstring and your pony As your heart beats strong and lonely like the waves upon the sea, Does that eerie pull that drew us into this moth-like dance Cause your musings 'neath the moonrise to ever stop and think of me?

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Max Peters

Better Room to Die

Essay.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

William Wood

A Cowboy to the End

When a cowboy's old and all wore out You can take him off the ranch But he'll always be a cowboy You can tell with just a glance By the way his legs are bowed and bent, The way he wears his hat, By the wrinkles there around his eyes And other little clues like that.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Marie W. Smith

The Cowboy's Hats

Cecil looked good in hats. Each one sat his head like it had been custom made, even if it hadn't, a black Stetson, with his own special crease, the first one I ever saw on him.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Buddhists Don't Ride Bucking Horses

Having pushed it half the night 600 miles and a horse at each end, Spurring mind broncs through wrecked Saskatchewan towns, Willy Everide of Seldom Spur, Mont. is stiff and wearied of driving.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Dakotan Nocturne 4

The horns of the moon Are stuck orange in a tree Branch, swaybacked as the Fallen barn. Or old mare, Who, deep in snow, Eats saplings.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Miles City Thunderstorm

Hobbled horse lies In electric firefight, A steaming wet War pony with Burnt black eyes And nose.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Somnambulist In Blue

To wake and dream A blue somnambule On mornings she towel dried Her long dark hair.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Bronc Riding Mantra

Lift and charge Spur, spur, spur Get a good mark out.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Buffalo Bull Spring Song

Alongside you (And no other) I have stood And followed For ten days Roaming the earth. For ten days!

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Trick Roping

Hop Annie hop. Crow Hop Ann jumping through the spinning flat spiral.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-2o

Vess Quinlan

Leo's Crooked Cousin

Essay.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Rod McQuery

Chicken Outfit

It might have been the supper, Gee, this bachelor cooking's great. Or it might have been the quantity, I knew I overate. It was just an average evening, I don't recall now what was said, But from the warm fire and the darkness Soon I toddered off to bed.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Wallace McRae

Haying Horses In My Hand

I see lathered teams in afternoon sun Cutting five foot swaths in yard-high hay. I smell drying coils that the dump rakes spun Of alfalfa and blue joint in contoured display. There's a buckrake skimming the ground, in my mind, In controlled weavings, to even the load. Overshot teams plod a monotonous grind: "Git up. whoa. Back." on a forty foot road.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyre

FC 11 D-20

Paul Zarzyski

I Am Not A Cowboy

beause cowboys don't cry and I can't fight back my 4-H'er greenhorn rapture while watching Cody foal--no white socks up front, a blaze face breaking through the giant dew--drop into the 10:15 a.m. sun, two hind socks stretched side-by-side in the dirt like reverse white-on-black exclamation marks, and yup "it's a filly!!"

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Paul Zarzyski

Peagsus, She Ain't

Easy-keeper, grass-bellied and grained for life, old Cody follows her foundering nose through the yard gate I leave ajar thinking without horse sense once more there's nothing save the house she can mistake for a feedsack here!

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Lisa Quinlan

Politics

I wish someone Would fix that Damn bump In the road. The one I drive Over at least Three times a day.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Lisa Quinlan

Unshaven Faces

Stand in a dirty doorway, Strands of hair Greased with black thoughts, Shapeless eyes Stick in my back As I pass.

Dry Crik Review (Elko Commemorative Double Issue): winter/spring 1994, 2 copies

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Lisa Quinlan

The Tease

Practices her Provocative hip walk Wherever she goes. In bathroom mirrors She rehearses Half closed eyes Puckered lips And teasing techniques, Smiles sweetly to herself Ready for work.