FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
73
Max McCoy
Summer is Short and the Night is Long III
So I walk into the Farmers and Droverss Loan say, "Get down or I'll blow your heads off, this isn't as easy as it looks, I'm wound tighter than piano wire and my heart's hammering a Steve Earle song.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
76
Red Shuttleworth
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1928)
Cadaver-thin, he stalks up the tracks out of Cotulla, Texas. The tickle in his throat gives way to the first whiskey in weeks. At twenty he is scarcely older than his seventh grade Mexican students at Wellhaven Elementary School.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
77
Elman Card (1937)
"What kind of life can you have if over three hundred boys and girls died when the school blew up while you played hooky? I was home, rubbing my arm with Absorbine, which also kills ringworm of the foot.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
78
John Wilkes Booth (1938)
"Between Post and Clairemont there are, for one particular mile, as many fence posts as there are skinned wolves dangling off them, over two hundred nearly identical grimaces.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
79
Huron "Ted" Waters (1938)
Huron "Ted" Waters (1938)
"I never said I was some trigger-quick, matchless Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, or Dillinger. You got to go a caliber extra in the crime shindig to be Clyde Barrow or Miss Bonnie Parker.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
80
Milton Parker Looney (1994)
"Light 'em if you have 'em": the fighting Nora's Navy Cross fire controlman is dying, lung cancer, hot as the Christmas lights as his niece's house. In delirium he is back on the Northampton, just before midnight near Guadalcanal.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
81
George Sibley
Hartman Rocks
I lift my eyes to these hills To see beyond gods and folly; I come out among these rocks To take peace in their absence of plan. In this thrust and boil of stone, Long cooled but still settling out.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
82
Hawks and Haying at Clarke's Ranch
They seemed a team, symbiotic: The silent man on the John Deere, The hawk floating along behind, Waiting for something to dart out Of the over-rolled row of winnowed hay.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
83
On Driving Past the One Hundred Thousandth Roadkill
These animals sleeping on the shoulder Will one day all wake up and take back the roads. The fish flushed in turbines will run Up the rubble of dams coming down; New feathers will grow through crude gunk.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
84
West Elks Haiku
the old deacon spruce stood grim but its new greens laughed as they slapped me wet that clawed-up quakie's so old even her bear is some fifty yards dead.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
85
Larry D. Thomas
Blue Norther
When the wind barreled in, even the mesquite murmured, their roots of tempered steel creaking, clawing deep in the merciless Texas earth, their wood ornery enough.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
86
Forgotten Horseshoe
In far West Texas, foundationed on a flank of the Guadalupe Mountains, just the weathered wooden shell of Williams Ranch.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
87
Near Pecos
The land brown with drought, branches of mesquite twist to the breaking point. Fresh brands fester, itching the hides of Herefords whose bawling singes hairs.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
88
Night Goat
The cold rock faces of sheer cliffs shudder, echoing the black arpeggios of bleating. He swaggers up the steep canyon as if he owns the place.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
89
Sierra Diablo
Near Van Horn, Texas, in the desert, even the living is far more skeleton than flesh; a landscape of yucca flanking rib cages sandblasted, sun-bleached, immaculate.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
90
Mark Todd
Mountain Roads
The roads I like best struggle to bridge two points strung out rubber thin, like a hat ear to ear, its band tearing free from a warped-fitting brim.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
91
Like Sleep, But Brittle
Like sleep, But brittle, a film that crackles from each toss to turn and then returns to the starch of wakefulness.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
92
Runaway
well I'd unhooked the trailer just like I'd done a hundred times I chocked the wheels I set the block and cranked it off the hitch.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
94
Lori Van Pelt
Snowy Range Moon
In dusks's chiaroscuro while sunset drains the day's warmth we sip burgundy from crystal. Clad in down coats and wool socks, we wobble in lawn chairs on cushiony grass and watch constellations uncloack.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
95
Tardy Visitor to the Graveyard
Two cocoons dangle from one budded branch of the Russian olive. Little lanterns yet unlit waiting for luminescence kindled by interior instinct.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
96
The Deaf Lady Sings
Her garden delights the eyes-- cosmos, roses, irises swinging in the brisk rhythmic wind lilacs, poppies, tulips tapping white wooden picket fence.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
97
Dale L. Walker
Eldorado
Rough and Ready, serenely isolated among pines and oaks and blackberry brambles, the archetypal placer camp where the mind still sees weary men stirring from their bedrolls at daybreak.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
99
Richard S. Wheeler
After I'm Gone
Will she spread my ashes down in the park, the Lamar Valley, a place I loved where buffalo graze beneath a cloud-patched sky and wolves sun on distant ridges?
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
100
Paul Zarzyski
Cowboy Poet Barnstormer
Eighty-nine copies of your latest alliterative lariati title crammed, sans remaining space for one anorectic, iambic molecule of mold or mildew, in the Samsonite Genuine Split Cowhide suitcase you wheedled out of your widow neighbor.
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson
FC 11 W-30
102
Flowering
Their rump hairs puffed, chrysanthemum antelope blossoms from beds into morning hoarfrost, the rancid scent of carnivore boring through the frozen air of their world so perfectly still.