FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Crazy Quilt: A Patchwork of New and Collected Poems
FC 11 E-21
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Elizabeth Ebert
No One Ever Wrote Me A Love Poem
No budding Keats or Shelley Ever penned a poem for me. No long impassioned lyrics That scanned quite metrically.
Write Tough!
FC 11 G-35
1
Peggy Godfrey
Ask Me
Why does grass Lose vigor Under constant grazing-- New growth nipped back Several times During a growing season? Ask me I am woman I am grass Nipped often In my growing season.
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Peggy Godfrey
Domestic Violence
Predator Prey Hunger drives Predator To slay Impassionate apart from need. Domestic dogs Prey In packs Mock predators Slaugher with passion.
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Peggy Godfrey
Jaguar
Sleek black jaguar Curled in death's slump Beneath thorny chico bushes Lining the long straight road To Moffat.
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Peggy Godfrey
Storyteller
weaver gatherer of threads seeker of pattern who brings together sorting binding connecting over and under over and under.
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Peggy Godfrey
Night Shift
Into camper quarters Where I will spend the night I carry my thermos and snacks Turn on the heater and lights. A handful of heifers remain to calve Coyotes bark and yowl Bawling calves and echoing cows Distant, southwest from corrals.
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Peggy Godfrey
Performance...As Snowmelt
Natural response to warmth No holding back the river No thought to where tomorrow's river comes from.
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11
Peggy Godfrey
Two Storms
Early March snows Fall to our dry dusty valley With the haste of a lover Ending an extended absence Soft wet snowflakes Like laughter and kisses.
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Peggy Godfrey
My Grief
How willing you are To share details of his death When for a decade You refused him your sanction To enjoy my warm admiration. My mentor, my friend, my father-in-law Divorce changed the course of rivers.
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FC 11 G-35
18
Peggy Godfrey
Who Is Jason?
You visited my dreams As I napped between checking heifers I couldn't see your face You never said your name But I knew you We saddled up and rode out to a canyon.
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FC 11 G-35
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Peggy Godfrey
Not All Of Us Are Corn Plants
Medicine woman Potent herb Healing to some Poison to others Paradox of tender stalk And sturdy root Spirit gift My world has need of thee.
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FC 11 G-35
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Peggy Godfrey
Love At 47
Love had been a minefield Since days of early youth Mapped by social dictates To destroy my inner truth. Expectations like explosives Buried, silent in my path Judgments sift like ashes Through the hazy aftermath.
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26
Peggy Godfrey
Rustlin'
I know in Colorado When you're driving down the road Laws hold a man accountable For stock that's in his load. You can haul cows for another man And you can haul your own Your brand inspection papers Justify and make it known.
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Peggy Godfrey
Cowboy Shepherd
This cowboy's got a shepherd 'Cause the work's not always safe Near misses leave me trembling In awe and disbelief. I've been drawn by inner urges To hurt or frightened stock Sometimes it's they who comfort Sometimes I am their rock.
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29
Peggy Godfrey
Teacher
Of the yearling ewe Whose bearing of young Does not proceed to the nursing phase Who leaves the second-born Lying on its back in the dirt, shivering. My work is to direct her to the pleasures Of her creative and nurturant self.
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Peggy Godfrey
Many Ways of Loving Longing
I rush to you with the abandon Of a hungry lamb As she nestles into her mother's flanks To draw from her the draft of life. This I know: the scent of her young Is irresistible to a mother.
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Peggy Godfrey
Many Ways Of Loving Dance With Fear
In my dream we made our way On unfamiliar terrain Stopping for some event We watched from bleachers. You took my hand as we talked Kissed me with your lips or eyes I don't remember which.
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Peggy Godfrey
Wings of Silver
When I read it aloud I thought, "Beautiful" When the small voice said "This is for you" I questioned, "Me?" "Yes, you" I laughed Shaking all over Like Sarah must have laughed.
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33
Peggy Godfrey
For Julie
Down the hall in the middle of the night I heard a baby cry Not my baby Knowing As a mother knows My milk came down It was not my baby.
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35
Peggy Godfrey
Babies Having Babies
A yearling ewe at lambing Is a creature set apart Her youth and procreation war Within her ovine heart. Yearlings having single lambs Most often meet success The move to motherhood is made Without some major mess.
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Peggy Godfrey
Death's Pale Face
Death's pale face Softened by tousled hair And a denim shirt Lies on the pavement. Blood, glass, shreds of clothing Motorcycle remains strewn Within the lines of the turning lane For an uncomfortable distance.
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Peggy Godfrey
Kinda Like Dancing
There's more to building fence Than hanging up a wire More to ranching in the West Than money or desire. There's more to moving cattle Than opening up a gate More to winter feeding Than hefting all that weight.
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Peggy Godfrey
Thoughts Of Leaving The Land
Ornaments of my life Are the invisible Unrecognizable to the world Qualities embodied in the life I have orchestrated: Fields, meadows, streams, reservoirs Cow herds, flock of sheep, remuda.
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Peggy Godfrey
Basic Cow Sense For Greenhorns
If there's a gate you're hoping To make cows amble through No doubt there'll be the neighbor's dogs Or kids within their view Or waving plastic OB gloves Things that rattle or crash A rustle of nylon winter wear Geese or cats or trash.
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Peggy Godfrey
What Has Three Legs and No Respect?
Six family members gather in my parents' kitchen "home" from Texas and Colorado. Tight-scheduled afternoon ahead Dad shouts, "Hey!" We hush.