FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Ride The Silence
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Linda Hussa
Dat So La Lee
Stepping through a willow patch long stems comb the sky slender brown fingers touch slender red stems. The air in a simple phrase holds her upon the earth where her people gather.
antelope, reed, power, harvest, Washoe mater basket maker
Ride The Silence
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Linda Hussa
Bone Hunter
I walk the desert salt brush, rabbit brush, sage, bitterroot, greasewood, rye upland into hunched hills, easy walking over chipping ground of recent wandering people,
desert, lonely, guts, blood, broken
Ride The Silence
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Linda Hussa
How Tom Became A cowboy
He looked at me decided to tell the truth not that old story he pretended was true. My folks died when I was four. I was sent to live with an uncle and aunt in Canada.
train, saddle, dog, toilet
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Linda Hussa
Inside Straight
He loved her long horse face and yeys cocked bright and waxen. Her mouth fell open to bray out joy and her long legs wrapped him warm like no quilt could.
horseman, patient, spurs, love
Ride The Silence
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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. A plain open hillside watches him
eye, lightning, husband, kitchen
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Linda Hussa
Once In A Blue Moon
A cup slips from her hand a glass and pierces the shell where she has stored all things gone wrong. She tries to dam it with both hands clamped to the wound that bleeds her loneliness.
awkward, blood, hat, mouse, willows
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Linda Hussa
A Rancher
We lost the ranch in the 30s. We were flat broke. I ran a trap line for cash. Sold my hides in Gerlach. The man gave me a check. I didn't know if the check was good but I had to take the chance.
place, Reno, good, shopping, gentleman
Ride The Silence
FC 11 H-58
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Linda Hussa
Solitary Life
you took me to your room to see photographs. There was a scent of a man in there. No hairpins. No jewelry. No bit of lace women of her age sew to the edge of things.
cloister, boot, brave, buckaroos, mistake
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Linda Hussa
Ride 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.
steady, frozen, power, poor, juice
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Linda Hussa
For Forty Years
she ranted like a sow when he threw his saddle in the pickup the latigo and cinches lapping over the side followed him down back streets to see who he might visit
money, resentment, freedom, tears
Ride The Silence
FC 11 H-58
57
Linda Hussa
Death Came Riding
down halls green halls, green floors fourteen year old boy used to sagebrush and seeing into far country he would ride fourteen year old shadow along green walls forgetting turns,
Lige Langston, hospital, shave, home
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Linda Hussa
Arrowhead
Raven spy it sailing slow like an owl that skims the milky night. Raven lean down from your sky and touch the bit of molten glass gutted from earth's belch.
transparent, blessing, tongue, death, powerless
Ride The Silence
FC 11 H-58
60
Linda Hussa
The Man Shoeing A Horse And His Little Girl
He whirled those blue eyes on me flat blue eyes bottomless eyes where the pupil had shrunk up so he was only seeing through that pinhole screwing me down
x-ray, honey, chimney, run, eyes
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Linda Hussa
Fate's Girl
Somewhere between the cuff and the hem of life's dark coat there lived a man. Not a man who as example your father comes to mind but a father all true of a girl slight and plain to see.
Sid Harris, ambition, opportunity, abandonment, '49 Trail
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FC 11 H-58
71
Linda Hussa
The Flowering Of Birth
When it goes right the silent bud slips out on the meadow the miracle happens plain air goes in, every particle shocks to run on new fuel alone.
blossom, bridge, kindness, failure, fear
Ride The Silence
FC 11 H-58
72
Linda Hussa
A Prayer To Three Coyote Pups
Below us sunning on the slope of the pond. Below us scampering in looping circles puppies write in soft dirt. Below us bearing deep reflections that fall to the floor of the water.
trot, squirrel, claws, strong
Ride The Silence
FC 11 H-58
73
Linda Hussa
On The Waiting Land
There is a desert it is mine and it is yours badger Quiet lives there rent free raven Sun comes nearly every day and if it doesn't rock chuck the desert waits
quiet, rent free, music, snow, spark
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Linda Hussa
Desert Crossing
Willows follow the river's twist up the valley. Horse tails blown on south winds brush the sky toward the finish line. The desert turns its endless face to cars
Africa, equator, bedrock
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Linda Hussa
I Have Spent The Day With Beasts
The sun arches against the clouds. A red-tailed hawk glides in its thick color and becomes a twig floating. A rainbow takes up half the sky perfect in its bridge.
dog, blood, horse, cattle
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Linda Hussa
Without Using His Name
I ask you to stop step into the space and walk walk from this home all arranged into the one that waits that does not invite but welcomes.
God, teach, vision, playful, silence
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Linda Hussa
Lilac
A life that left no scent, no color, no sign of joy left you burst forth with they honey of Spring, in the rise of purged earth and warmed sage lost in this desert
soil, root, thread, bloom
Ride The Silence
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Linda Hussa
Hays Mountains In Sunset
Watch the sunset? Easy. Sunsets are for those who moan if rain comes two days running. Naw. Not for us who know what waiting brings. I don't watch the western rim catch fire.
Nevada, fire, heat, red, sky
Ride The Silence
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Linda Hussa
Trust
There are some things some people you may never stand before repeating their proper dimensions so high, so pale so wise may never hear their sound inclined toward the center of the earth
exist, foal, resist, nostril
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Linda Hussa
Did You Forget
The sky was startling clear. Only a few stars bright with heat cooled long before we held hands here, before there was such a thing as love. How can it be seen
passion, vapor, physics, brilliant
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Linda Hussa
You Are My Sunshine
The tumble of loving in early light interspersed with the need to hurry into the next moment bursting forward as the sun voids night from the sky, your arms wrap away the darkness.
John, oatmeal, wink, wife, partner, smile