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

Peggy Godfrey

Asparagus

Late March Back to Taos To remove an aging windmill From rotting tower Deep urge to see If asparagus is up Find no asparagus But a neighbor's weary heifer Half-done birthing.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Peggy Godfrey

Elko Reflections

The pain of parting On Sunday At Elko Is like the drag Of barbed wire Across my hand.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Peggy Godfrey

Killdeer

My poetry: I make The serious issues Of my life Into playthings I use bold marks, Sound Bright colors Laughter.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Joe Bruce

The Circle

Essay

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

John C. Dofflemyre

FC 11 D-20

Andy Wilkinson

On The Canyon Rim

There's little art in conversation left. Like anchors on the nightly network news, We nibble 'round the edges. For instance, My father, dying of cancer, uses Medical lingo, misspoken, for causes And expectations, dodging mysteries To say, by God, it weren't the cigarettes.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Andy Wilkinson

There Will Be Others

There will be others after you, If you require it; If you demand that ends be ends; If you are certain Forever is a poet's word And we're not poets;

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Andy Wilkinson

When Words Become

I'll write for you so long as I an taste In words the silent witness of your tongue, So sweet and strong it was when first you traced Its dialogue of passion on my face And from my lips a dictionary wrung.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Linda Hussa

Uncle Ben On The Bench

Every afternoon they say trembling with disease, cane tapping, whispering against his rough jeans a code, a message I can't tell.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Linda Hussa

The Silence

This land asks for quiet passion. The surface still, beneath--a thunderous shake of underground rivers grinding through bed rock of the earth's own form. No one knows the torment knotted, gnarled beneath their daily feet.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Trish O'Malley

Sagebrush Humn

Our lady of Artemisia Desert Deity, Some might question naming a plant so seldom seen in the company of trees after the Greek Goddess of the Wood.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Trish O'Malley

Pastoral: Snake Valley, Nevada 1993

He climbs down from a dusty pickup, adjusts the obligatory silver rodeo buckle (it rides low, searching for firm ground on his ever-softening body).

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Tom McBeth

Babies

She always arrived in the BMW sli, thirtyish, then went to catch Baby, sixteen hands, long underline, muscled, well-proportioned, flat-boned and roan.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Marie W. Smith

Skipping Rocks

I rode today across the stony beach, picked a rounded purple skipper, flat from constant waters long caressed. Were you there again? Did you sit your pony at lake edge, beckon me as I pressed the stone, then followed its erratic flight, five giant skips?

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Sue Wallis

Sadie's Secret

Used to be a standing bet among the neighbors on this creek Since Harlow never wasted any time to find a mate. He'd go to town and scout around and come back pretty quick To let us know the bells would ring and set the date.

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

John C. Dofflemyere

FC 11 D-20

Tom Sharpe

Aging

When time equates to money and life ceases to be fun, Each little task becomes a major chore, Your brow collects some creases and the hairline fades away, Nature's way to even up the score.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

J.B. Allen

Metamorphosis

He slipped on his slicker And stepped off the porch To a world made of water and wind The hail beatin tunes On his battered old hat From a sy that was blacker than sin.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Buck Ramsey

The Slipper Waltz

Kid Tybo Tremain of the old Star Cross outfit Had yet his last measure to grow, But he rode like a tick on brush country cowdog and looped the beast, head, heel or toe.

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Scott Preston

hal--

I couldn't have been more concise explaining the Irony Button: "Do we want a preserved culter or a living culture?" In many African tribal practices, the master artists pass on their traditions through careful instruction of apprentices.

Letters to Elko

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

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

George Sicking

Free Verse

I once knew an Indian fella, He was old and he was wise. Many things and many places Had passed before his eyes. He had a love for horses, The kind that could win a race And many of those we tested out In the sandwash by his place.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Jodie Ebert

Red Boots

My grandma dreams of cowboys Of boots and Wrangler jeans Of endless miles of prairie grass And eternal sunset scenes. Her only wish for me is that I find my own John Wayne.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Strip Tease

We fling our feathery phrases, We toss into the crowd Our alliterative baubles, That gragile, gossamer cloud Of metaphor and simile That holds the world at bay We try to keep it graceful In the tempo of the day.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

New Year

Though January's presumed to start the year I think the New Year starts when spring is here. Instead of sparrows on a barren bough, I hear the mourning doves all morning now.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Prairie Woman's Song

I left all the hustle and bustle And the noise of city life And I followed my love to the open plains And now I'm a prairie wife. Here the crowds no longer surround me With their hurry, and flurry, and rush.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Things In Common

They had a lot in common Those cowboys of the past Those daring men on horseback Living reckless, riding fast. Wearing patched and faded Levis Boots run over at the heels.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Cowboy Up

The phrase that's popular these days Among the cowboy crew when bad luck rides your shoulder And good luck is overdue. When cinches snap and horses fall When rhymes go all astray.